he talks about the spring offensive and also towards the end, listen to his description of the russian forces, let s take a listen. i believe we will see the results of true combined arms effect, tanks protected by infantry against anti tank guided missiles, artillery keeping heads down, engineers reducing the obstacles, breaching the fortifications that the russians have established, air defence, keeping the russians off the ukrainians, electronic warfare jaminet russians already not a and control, all orchestrated by very good ukrainian command and control, and using drones over the russians to attack them in depth with the precision munitions that the us and uk and others have provided. and this is going to break, i think, the front lines. where they will do this attack, i m not going to speculate, although the ukrainians have said that their objective is to sever the ground lines of communications that enables the russians to go along the south east coast into crimea. we
ukraine says its forces are enduring intense russian shelling in the eastern city of lysycha nsk but it denies claims its troops are surrounded. lysychansk is the last ukrainian held city in luhansk, which is part of the industrial donbas region. these pictures from russia s state owned domestic news agency, ria, show drone images of battles near the city. but kyiv denies claims that russian backed fighters have encircled the city. elsewhere, russia is continuing its missile strikes. in the south, ukraine s military says the city of mykolaiv has been hit by ten missiles targeting the port and other industrial infrastructure. it s not yet clear if there are any casualities. ukrainian authorities have accused moscow of hitting civilian targets in an effort to force them into making territorial concessions. meanwhile, two more britons captured by russian forces in ukraine have been charged with being mercenaries, according to russian state media. it comes after two other briti
hello, and welcome to bbc news. ukraine says its forces are enduring intense russian shelling in the eastern city of lysychansk, but it denies claims its troops are surrounded. lysychansk is the last ukrainian held city in luhansk, which is part of the industrial donbas region. these pictures from russia s state owned domestic news agency, ria, show drone images of battles near the city. but kyiv denies claims that russian backed fighters have encircled the city. elsewhere, russia is continuing its missile strikes. in the south, ukraine s military says the city of mykolaiv has been hit by ten missiles targeting the port and other industrial infrastructure. it s not yet clear if there are any casualities. ukrainian authorities have accused moscow of hitting civilian targets in an effort to force them into making territorial concessions. meanwhile, two more britons captured by russian forces in ukraine have been charged with being mercenaries, according to russian state media.
southern part of marriott paul. is a. mauripol. inspirational and unfalteringly brave the duke and duchess of cambridge lead tributes to cancer campaigner, blogger and broadcaster dame deborahjames who died yesterday. the prince of wales says he ll never again handle large cash donations to be passed to his charities. charles faced criticism after being presented with cash from a former qatari prime minister judges at the court of appeal have ruled that the high court should reconsider the case of 12 year old archie battersbee and decide whether it is in his best interests for life support treatment to continue or end. heading straight to the nato summit injoining my colleague heading straight to the nato summit in joining my colleague who is following all of the developments there in nato. matthew, absolutely. this is being described as a transformative summit. the strategic concept was meant to be a complete change, nato has certainly delivered. from the very begi
For a vigil in Manchester City centre in memory of those who died. And this afternoon, the queen led a minutes silence at buckingham palace, along with senior members of the royal family. Hello and welcome. Its 7am in singapore, and midnight across the uk, where Prime Minister theresa may has announced that the Security Services are increasing the threat level posed by terrorism to its highest grade. It comes after a Suicide Bomber detonated his vest at a Music Concert In Manchester on monday evening, killing 22 people. Heres my colleague Christian Fraser In Manchester. Very good evening. Welcome to Albert Square In Manchester. We have had a moving vigil here earlier this evening. Hundreds of people packed into the square to hear tributes to those who died, and to the victims who are still being treated in hospital. At this time last night, this precise time, the Emergency Services were reacting to reports of an explosion. The Manchester Arena was packed with people, with a sell out 21