on most and with crimea. with its liberation, you'll zoom rushes, defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep in a russian occupying territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths and key. if earlier i spoke with d. w mathias, berlin in key. but i asked him if the war is now expanding into the crimean peninsula, while it's hard to say that it expanded because crimea was part of this war as we've just heard it, a launch. but for the invasion, it's a highly militarized territory where russia has a lot of technology and it's also home to the black sea fleet and the headquarters of the black sea fleet

and here it's russia has occupied cry, crimea, for many years now, are there people left in crimea who are still loyal to ukraine? probably they all. hm. there's always every think that the people who are outspoken pro ukrainian, most of them have fled. some are in jails, i don't think it's possible to be in any way pro ukrainian as an activist, for example, in crimea, which work as a pro will ukrainian activist at the moment. but you know, the silent majority, we don't know where they lean or how many of them lean to this side on this side. they're pretty, pretty sure that they're on one of the speculations actually about how these blasts have happened. is that the, that these were saboteurs and the secretary must be. there are the ways they concept hodge anything there. so yes, probably they're all, we don't know how many we don't know how forceful they'll, but he is. thank you very much. that was our correspond mathias bellingham in kit. yep. thank you. to catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. veteran us politician, liz cheney has lost her se

i mean, legally, of course crimea is part of, of ukraine. and even though russia has tried everything in the past 8 years since it started it's cropping patient in crimea to, to install the russian system. there are a lot of people that are loyal to the he has government. there has been a lot of speculation in the past days that some kind of ukrainian special forces could have been involved in the recent explosions. but again, these are speculations, other explanations have been discussed here as well, reaching from sabotaged to accidents to possible rocket attacks. now let's change focus to the fighting around the separate g a nuclear plant. what's the latest there? from what we effort there haven't been any new checks there during the night and in the morning. but indeed, service situation is very worrisome. there have been, several artillery strikes close to the plant in recent days we were able to talk to a former engineer who used to work at the power plant until recently. and she says she's very worried about the situation. very worrie

on most and with crimea. also coming up u. s. a native forces left afghanistan one year ago, and so did much of the $4.00 and $8.00 did any of this make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable afghans. a 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development fate to create the lasting conditions needed to reduce infant mortality. to my i got that i'm a doctor if i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time, gunnison was never staples and never peaceful. now let's use it to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the russian invasion of ukraine and the, i me, in fact, it's this week, ukraine's president zalinski said that the war with russia actually began when russia annex crimea. and that the war can only end when russia's annexation is. now back in 2014, russia illegally annexed crimea. that meant no recognition by the international community. it also meant punitive sanctions against russia from the w

the crimea crimea really as not. right. so this would be why conflict? russia would certainly respond very severely uncertain. and again, i think what you would see potentially is a conflict that gets, you know, again start to creep into russian territory. and that, that just does not bode well for russia for ukraine where the rest of europe and having, i assume, seen the footage of the bloss was your initial assessment. the situation, well, i'm not a military expert or a ballistics expert. i would hate to, to give an opinion, but it certainly looks like it could've been some sort of military attack. and again, if that with the ukraine started hitting a tourist area and crimea, i mean, this is again, this takes the war to a new level. this could be the opening salvo of a major conflagration in europe. and so, i mean, when i 1st saw the footage and heard what was happening and i felt that i'm very, truly concerned that this is going to potentially wide in this sort of response to expect from russia. if it does turn out to be the worst case scenario, i mea

taking part of this initiative to bring crimea back on the ukrainians sovereignty. to expand rob today, the advisory council, the dissipation of crimea has been created to coordinate all activities and projects in this direction entered, saw the success of the crimean platform grange fleet. blood for crimea is a popular tourist destination for russians. and the cryptic tweet sent out after tuesday's explosion. one of the lines, his advisors wrote that invaders and thieves must understand there's a high risk of death in occupied territories. dw, yon philip charles is in cave. he explained ukraine's tactic of neither confirming nor denying responsibility for a tax on russian targets in the crimean peninsula. even though ukraine has not claimed direct responsibility for any incidents in crimea. senior officials have implied involvement. the ukrainian military, for example, published a video showing an explosion, but they refused to give any further explanations on it. it's obviously part of the ukrainian strategy at the moment. not to bro, provide any details about a p

today there's a lot of attention on the crimea issue. underwrite the so because crimea is ukrainian and we will never renounce it. we will not forget that it was the occupation of crimea that was the beginning of the russian war against you, gregory. and i'm joined now from london by military analyst and conflict research. i might marson welcome to the w mike. and can you tell me who do you think was behind these explosions in crimea? of course it was the ukrainians. we've heard this before from the russians when the muscular thank your viewers will probably remember this. russian ship sank, they were all sorts of stories. and then it turned out that actually the cranes had fired a missile asset. the reason of course, that the ukrainians, being slightly coy about this. and they're saying are, well, you know, maybe it was us. maybe it wasn't us because what this does is it spreads confusion and fear amongst the russians, particularly the russian forces based in crimea and just north of crime in her song . and this is exactly what the russians would be doing for the last 10 years. so they

. >> this war against ukraine and against all are free you up began with crimea and must end with crimea, with its liberation. >> russia's defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition, and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep into russian occupied territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggest work could have been the work of saboteurs or russian incompetence. so far ukraine has not reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials in moscow warned that would trigger massive retaliation, including strikes on kyiv. brent: i spoke with our reporter in kyiv and ask if the war is expanding onto the crimean peninsula. reporter: it is hard to say it expanded, because crimea was part of this war, as we just heard, a launchpad for the invasion. it's highly militarized territory or russia has a lot of technology and is also home to the black sea fleet and headquarters of the black sea fleet that have been attacked by ukraine just a few days ago. so of course this

this initiative to bring crimea back on the ukrainians sovereignty to expand rob. today, the advisory council, the dissipation of crimea, has been created to coordinate all activities and projects in this direction. happy into saw the success of the criminal platform. strangely, blood for crimea is a popular tourist destination for russians. and the cryptic tweet sent out after tuesday's explosion. one of the landscape advisors wrote that invaders and thieves must understand, there is a high risk of death in occupied territories. dw, yon phillips schoultz is in keith. he explained ukraine's tactic, oath, neither confirming nor denying responsibility for a tax on russian targets in the crimean peninsula. even though ukraine has not claimed direct responsibility for any incidents in crimea. senior officials have implied involvement. the ukrainian military, for example, published a video showing an explosion, but they refused to give any further explanations on it. it's obviously part of the ukrainian strategy at the moment. not to bro, provide any details about a pos

taking part of this initiative to bring crimea back on the ukrainians sovereignty to expands rob. today, the advisory council, the dissipation of crimea, has been created to coordinate all activities and projects in this direction. happy into saw the success of the criminal platform. strangely, blood for crimea is a popular tourist destination for russians. and the cryptic tweet sent out after tuesday's explosion. one of the lends, his advisors wrote that invaders and thieves must understand, there is a high risk of death in occupied territories. dw, yon phillip schoultz is in keith. he explained ukraine's tactic of neither confirming, no denying responsibility for a tax on russian targets on the crimean peninsula. even though ukraine has not claimed direct responsibility for any incidents in crimea. senior officials have implied involvement. the ukrainian military, for example, published a video showing an explosion, but they refused to give any further explanations on it. it's obviously part of the ukrainian strategy at the moment. not to bro, provide any details about a possibl

or so near the bridge that connects crimea to russia. so yeah, some are probable attacks on russian positions or russian targets there on crimea. can you tell me how these attacks fit into ukrainian military strategy where ukraine has started to attack targets on crimea in the past few days? we still don't know the details about how it conducted them. and these jones that were shot down last night, they might give us some idea of what might have happened. but what we've seen as that there have been there is some of these attacks have been pretty efficient in destroying russian military equipment, including quite a fuel fighter planes. and thus, of course, significant. um, so the ukraine seems to have more means now to attack deeper into russian controlled territory. crimea is quite far from where ukrainian positions are, where the next ukranian positions are. and they are showing the russians now that they can do that. and that, of course, is not only meant to achieve a military goal in terms of destruction, of military equipment, ammuni

after explosions at an airbase in crimea, president zelenskyy says the war in ukraine began in crimea and must end with his liberation. soaring temperature grip parts of europe. the continent is on course for its worst drought in 500 years. ♪ welcome to the program. we start in the u.s. former president donald trump has declined to answer questions as part of an investigation into his family's business dealings. to be clear, this is separate from the recent searches of his home in mar-a-lago earlierhis week. we will come to that in a moment. this was him earlier leaving trump tower in manhattan. he arrived at the new york attorney general's office to give what is called a deposition, giving evidence under oath but out-of-court. the teacher james is leading the investigation, examining allega that the trump orgazation misled lenders and tax authorities about the value of property it owns. this is a civil case between business organizations, not a criminal investigation. the tissue james ordered trump to appear before the proceedings but the trump family has resisted that thugh the co

he, russian air base in crimea. no official word from keep yet, but ukraine's president says the war will end only when the russian annexation of crimea ex, also coming up tonight will meet the director of a mother and baby clinic in cobble. one of the few women in afghanistan who still has a job under the taliban, and a neck and neck raised in kenya, the top contenders to be the next president. they could be headed for a one off election. and as europe looks to replace russian oil and natural gas, some countries are turning to nuclear power. finland says it has a solution to story radioactive waste. ah, i brink off is good to have you, withers ukraine tonight, says that 9 russian war plains been destroyed in explosions at an air base in the annexed crimea region. one person was killed several others injured. now russia has used the saki bays, which is near nova fitter thief to strike southern ukraine. moscow says that that nations have stored ammunition set off the blast at the air base. they say it was not an atta

on most and with crimea. also coming up u. s. a native forces left afghanistan one year ago, and so did much of the 4 and 8 did any of this make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable afghans, the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development fate, to create the lasting conditions needed to reduce infant mortality, to my i got that i'm a doctor. i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time we have janice and was never staples and never peaceful palazzios he with that aah! to our viewers watching on tv, us in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the russian invasion of ukraine and the crimean factor this week, ukraine's president zalinski said that the war with russia actually began when russia annex crimea, and that the war can only end when russia's annexation ends. no back in 2014 russia illegally. annexed crimea, that meant no recognition by the international community. it also meant punitive sanctions against russia fr

on most and with crimea. also coming up u. s. a native forces left afghanistan one year ago, and so did much of the $4.00 and $8.00 did any of this make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable afghans. a 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development, st. to create the lasting conditions need it to week use infant mortality can lead . not that i'm a doctor if i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time, gunnison was never staples and never peaceful palazzios. he began to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the russian invasion of ukraine and the crimean factor this week, ukraine's president zalinski said that the war with russia actually began when russia annex crimea, and that the war can only end when russia's annexation ins. no back in 2014 russia illegally. annexed crimea, that meant no recognition by the international community. it also meant punitive sanctions against russia from the

exploring rocked crimea for the second time. russia blames the secretaries. >> the announcing and official statement from the ministry of offenders -- defense that today's emergency was cause by saboteurs. >> liz cheney, the republican congresswoman who is a vocal critic of dond trump, may lose her seat. welcome to the program. we start with ukraine. for the executive tank in seven days, there have been explosions in crimea. not clear who is responsible. they were at a russian military base. a separate fire also broke out at a paris substation. the local governor spoke after the explosion took place. >> the information we have is that two people were injured, one man hit by shaft l, the other buried under a wall. -- hit by shrapnel i have ordered an evacuation. >> a week ago, there were explosions at an airfield that reported at least seven russian aircraft. crimea, russia illegally invaded it in 2014nd has occupied it since then. since russia's invasion of ukraine, its forces been out-of-control controlling the areas in red. th

most and with crimea, with its liberation. you'll zoom rushes, defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident which took place deep in a rush and occupied territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key if well earlier we spoke to dw mathias billing our in keith and asked him if the war is now expanding into crimea. well, it's hard to say that it expanded because crimea was part of this war as we've just heard it launch. but for the invasion, it's a highly militarized territory where russia has a lot of technology and it's also home to the black sea fleet and the headquarters of the black sea fleet. they have been attacked by ukraine,

also in the program, russia says it's evacuated, 3000 people in crimea, after explosions rocked to russian military base that moscow claims that fell victim to sabotage and the runner up in kenny as presidential election says he will challenge the results, but urges canyons to remain peaceful through the process ah, i'm glad elf has thanks for joining us. the veteran us politician list chaney, has lost her seat as the republican congressional candidate for wyoming to lawyer harriet hageman, who is a supporter of donald trump. cheney has been an outspoken critic of the former president, was one of the few republicans to vote for his impeachment in her concession speech . she vowed to do whatever it takes to deny tromp a 2nd term. she's also one of 2 republicans sitting on the committee, investigating the attack on the capital. on january 6, dw washington, bureau chief, venus paul sent us this assessment from wyoming. kind of is not surprising. harriet hagueman, one in the wyoming primaries over incumbent. miss cheney. and at this martha waters, at the moment for the republican party is jami

most and with crimea, with its liberation. you'll zoom rushes, defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident which took place deep in a rush and occupied territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths and key. if it earlier i spoke with the w, my t as bellinger in cuban i asked him, is this war now expanding on to the crimean potential? while it's hard to say that it expanded because crimea was part of this war as we've just heard it a launch. but for the invasion, it's a highly militarized territory where russia has a lot of technology and it's also home to the black sea fleet. and the headquarters of the black sea fleet, they have been a

i mean, legally, of course crimea is part of, of ukraine. and even though russia has tried everything in the past 8 years since it started it's cropping patient in crimea to, to install the russian system. there, there are a lot of people that are loyal to their, he has government. there has been a lot of speculation in the past days that some kind of ukrainian special forces could have been involved in the recent explosions. but again, these are speculations, other explanations have been discussed here as well, reaching from sabotaged to accidents to possible rocket attacks. now let's change focus to the fighting around the separate g a nuclear plant. what's the latest there? from what we effort that haven't been any new checks there during the night and in the morning. but indeed service situation is very worrisome. there have been several artillery strikes close to the plant. in recent days, we were able to talk to a former engineer who used to work at the power plant until recently. and she says she's very worried about the situation. ve

on most and with crimea. with its liberation. you'll soon rush as defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep in a rush, an occupied territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans saboteurs, war russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key iv ah, next monday will mark one year since the fall of cobble back into the hands of the taliban. we all remember those disturbing images of people trying to flee as the last u. s. and native forces left the country thousands tried to get out of the capital cobble as the taliban closed in. some made it to the airport and tried to board any plane that would take the taliban takeover of if afghanistan came after mon

and with crimea, with its liberation. you'll zoom rushes, defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident which took place deep in russian occupied territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far, ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea, officials and moscow war, and that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key if i'm to i now why from london by military analyst and conflict research and mike martin, mike, it's good to have you with us. thanks for your time today. i'm. we've seen these denials for throughout the war. who do you think was behind these explosions in crimea? oh, almost certainly, it was the kind of armed forces throughout the war. things have happened that haven't gone moscow's way. for example, i'm sure your viewers remember the

or so near the bridge that connects crimea to russia. so yeah, some are probable attacks on russian positions or russian targets there on crimea. can you tell me how these attacks fit into ukrainian military strategy where ukraine has started to attack targets on crimea in the past few days? we still don't know the details about how it conducted them. and these jones that were shot down last night, they might give us some idea of what might have happened. but what we've seen as that, and there have been, there is some of these attacks have been pretty efficient in destroying russian military equipment, including quite a fuel fighter planes. and us, of course, significant arm. so a ukraine seems to have more means now to attack deeper into russian control territory. crimea is quite far from where ukrainian positions are, where the next ukranian positions are. and they are showing the russians now that they can do that. and that, of course, is not only meant to achieve a military goal in terms of destruction, of military equipment, ammunit

also near the bridge that connects crimea to russia. so yeah, some odd probable attacks on russian positions or russian targets there on crimea. can you tell me how these attacks fit into ukrainian military strategy where ukraine has started to attack targets on crimea in the past few days? we still don't know the details about how it conducted them. and these jones that were shot down last night, they might give us some idea of what might have happened. but what we've seen is that, um, there have been, there is some of these attacks have been pretty efficient in destroying russian military equipment, including quite a fuel fighter planes. and us, of course, significant arm. so a ukraine seems to have more means now to attack deeper into russian control territory. crimea is quite far from where ukrainian positions are, where the next ukranian positions are. and they are showing the russians now that they can do that. and that, of course, is not only meant to achieve a military goal in terms of destruction, of military equipment, ammunit

today there's a lot of attention on the crimea issue. underwrite the so because crimea is ukrainian and we will never renounce it. we will not forget that it was the occupation of crimea that was the beginning of the russian war against you kindly. our correspond mathias current. a billing is following the story for us from keir mathias, russia, and ukraine. both say that this was not a military attack. is that plausible? in your opinion, what's your assessment? somebody must have done it. it's not likely that this has been an accident, or because these explosions, they happened at the same time, at 2 locations that were too far from each other toobin to be caused by the same accidental fire, which is the rush official russian version. russia, of course, has no interest in admitting that this was a strike whatsoever strike either by partisans, by rebels inside the inside crimea, or by any em rocket or, or a similar herb herb helicopters or whatever it might have been. ah, but a because that would show their vulnerable their vulnerability and in the case of a rocket attack or so the weak

or so near the bridge that connects crimea to russia. so yeah, some odd probable attacks on russian positions or russian targets there on crimea. can you tell me how these attacks fit into ukrainian military strategy where ukraine has started to attack targets on crimea in the past few days? we still don't know the details about how it conducted them. and these jones that were shot down last night, they might give us some idea of what might have happened. but what we've seen is that, um, there have been that some of these attacks have been pretty efficient in destroying russian military equipment, including quite a fuel fighter planes. and thus of course, significant arm. so a ukraine seems to have more means now to attack deeper into russian control territory. crimea is quite far from where ukrainian positions are, where the next ukranian positions are. and they are showing the russians now that they can do that. and that, of course, is not only meant to achieve a military goal in terms of destruction, of military equipment, ammunition,

today there's a lot of attention on the crimea issue, underwrite d, so because crimea is ukranian until he will never renounce it. we will not forget that it was the occupation of crimea that was the beginning of the russian war against you kindly. d. w, correspond mathias bellinger is following the story from kear. i asked him whether russia's claim that the explosions were an accident seemed plausible. well, yeah, the ukrainian ministry of defense, as saying that it advises the people in occupied crimea to adhere to smoking, reggie regulations and russia, how sad it was an accident. but if you look at the video footage that people have shocked or from these explosions, then it's so very clear that an accidental fire is not very probable to explosions happening at the same time, at 2 different locations. that pretty much looks like an attack. now who did it and why and how is another question over we have her several voices out of the ukranian government suggesting that it might have either been a partisan attack or some kind of a rocket r u a v attack or this is very contradicted, and

on most and with crimea. also coming up u. s. a native forces left afghanistan one year ago, and so did much of the 4 and 8 did any of this make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable afghans, the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development fate, to create the lasting conditions needed to reduce infant mortality, to my i got that i'm a doctor. i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time we have janice and was never staples and never peaceful with. to our viewers watching on tv, us in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the russian invasion of ukraine and the crimean factor this week, ukraine's president zalinski said that the war with russia actually began when russia annex crimea, and that the war can only end when russia's annexation ends. no back in 2014 russia illegally. annexed crimea, that meant no recognition by the international community. it also meant punitive sanctions against russia from the west. but zalin

or so near the bridge that connects crimea to russia. so yeah, some odd probable attacks on russian positions or russian targets there on crimea. can you tell me how these attacks fit into ukrainian military strategy where ukraine has started to attack targets on crimea in the past few days? we still don't know the details about how it conducted them. and these jones that were shot down last night, they might give us some idea of what might have happened. but what we've seen as that, and there have been, there is some of these attacks have been pretty efficient in destroying russian military equipment, including quite a fuel fighter planes. and thus of course, significant arm. so a ukraine seems to have more means now to attack deeper into russian control territory. crimea is quite far from where ukrainian positions are, where the next ukranian positions are. and they are showing the russians now that they can do that. and that, of course, is not only meant to achieve a military goal in terms of destruction, of military equipment, ammuni

if your credit forces were behind the expression in crimea, it would mark a significant escalation in the wall. cellphone video captures, a giant fire on the horizon. russian officials say the blaze engulfed, and ammunition depot at a russian military base in northern crimea. multiple fireballs can be seen and heard erupting in this amateur video. as the blaze rips through, the plant to near by villages had to be evacuated, looseness with it, and we came out of the big logan's clouds of smoke coming from the cow sheds where the military warehouses are. oh, we stayed there until about 7 already and everything was exploding, flashes, fragments, debris falling on us. you. if you didn't, the emergency guys game finches and said they were evacuating. everybody was still out. there were by explosion shelves falling right into back yards. we have a shell in ours, but that was, it was the guys who came over to inspect it. there was many, they said they were going to la d mine it or whatever. we just laughed everything like workers were quickly dispatched to start repairing rail tracks and pow

showing amanda today there's a lot of attention on the crimea issue and right the so because crimea is ukrainian and we will never renounce it. we will not forget that it was the occupation of crimea that was the beginning of the russian war against you kindly. our correspond mathias bellinger is following the story from cheers and joins us now. both russia and ukraine say that this was not a military attack or there on crimea. o mathias, what's it was that was about what your assessment well yeah, the ukrainian, the ministry of defense as saying that it advises the people in occupied crimea to adhere to smoking, reggie regulations and russia, how sad it was an accident. but if you look at the video footage that people have shocked or from these explosions, then it's so very clear that an accidental fire is not very probable to explosions happening at the same time, at 2 different locations. that pretty much looks like an attack. ah, now who did it and why and how is another question over we have are several voices out of the ukrainian government suggesting that it might have either be

it's a key, the rushing forces based in crimea and, and just north of crimea and her son. and this is exactly what the russians have been doing for the last 10 years. so they getting a taste of their own medicine. is there any information available about the damage that these explosions caused it? not with complete charity. what we do know is that that base had a number of fairly advanced rushing fight to aircraft on them prior to the explosion. so we can assume that at least, and this is, this is sort of a tech, or we can assume that these have been damaged. but what we do also know is that there were some explosions from either the parts as an attack or missiles or whatever. and then some time later, there was a much larger susan explosions. and what that tells us is that effectively the initial strike then set off ammunition or fuel, which is what you'd expect to have on a base of that size. and so the russians have lost quite a sizable quantity. if you look at the pictures, it's sort of the mushroom cloud rising up. the russians have lost quite a sizable cons to fuel a

even though ukraine has not claimed direct responsibility for any incidents in crimea. senior officials have implied involvement. the ukrainian military, for example, published a video showing an explosion, but they refused to give any further explanations on it. it's obviously part of the ukrainian strategy at the moment. not to bro, provide any details about a possible military operation in the region, but to leave plenty of room for interpretation. crimea is probably one of the most symbolic places of the war and many ukrainians. welcome possible attacks on russian military infrastructure in the region. it's a region that has been occupied by russia for the past 8 years, and sir president, sir lensky has repeatedly made it clear that for ukrainians any efforts to win the war or any efforts to take bag occupied territory must always include crimea. a summer of record breaking heat is drying of rivers across europe. nearly half of the continent is facing an unprecedented drought. now, shipping companies and germany are preparing for the worst. as the rhine river drops to critical level

and there was, were news of either drones shut down over crimea or so near the bridge that connects crimea to russia. so yeah, some odd probable attacks on russian positions or russian targets there on crimea. can you tell me how these attacks fit into ukrainian military strategy where ukraine has started to attack targets on crimea in the past few days? we still don't know the details about how it conducted them. and these jones that were shot down last night, they might give us some idea of what might have happened. but what we've seen as that, and there have been, there is some of these attacks have been pretty efficient in destroying russian military equipment, including quite a fuel fighter planes. and us, of course, significant arm. so a ukraine seems to have more means now to attack deeper into russian control territory. crimea is quite far from where ukrainian positions are, where the next ukranian positions are. and they are showing the russians now that they can do that. and that, of course, is not only meant to achieve a military goal in terms of destruction, of military equipme

crimea is also saying if you think crimea is some kind of russian base to stage your navy or to launch... to base aircraft to launch attacks across ukraine, think again. while the front line continues to get bogged down across the south of the country, this is a significant statement from ukraine as this war in terms of any big gains from either side looks set to remain as it is over the next year also. james waterhouse in kyiv, thank you. the business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, says more support is coming to help with the cost of living. mr kwarteng, a key ally of the conservative leadership frontrunner, liz truss, makes the pledge in tomorrow's mail on sunday. it comes as a new forecast for the energy price cap suggests it could top £6,000 a year from next april. i'm joined by our business correspondent, marc ashdown. marc, longer term predictions always very difficult, but this forecast will worry many? i think ithink so, i think so, remember the price cap is set by the regulator ofjen, the maximum suppliers can charge per unit of energy so built for the average household are curre

i mean, legally, of course crimea, it's part of ukraine. and even though russia has tried everything in the past 8 years since it started it's copy patient in crimea to, to install the russian system. there, there are a lot of people that are loyal to the kia government. there has been a lot of speculation in the past days that some kind of ukrainian special forces could have been involved in the recent explosions. but again, these are speculations, other explanations have been discussed here as well, reaching from sabotage to accidents to possible rocket attacks. now let's change focus to the fighting around the supple is year nuclear plant. what's the latest there from what we have heard there haven't been any new attacks there during the night and in the morning. but indeed, service situation is very worrisome. there have been, several artillery strikes close to the plant in recent days we were able to talk to a former engineer who used to work at the power plant until recently. and she says she's very worried about the situation. very w

fair wage when they were gunned down by police as explosions, rock of russian military facility in crimea. moscow says it was sabotaged. ah, ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. the runner up in kenny's presidential election has confirmed that he will contest the result. mother of danger describe the outcome as a travesty. that shows blatant disregard for the constitution. he also accused the chair of the electoral commission of acting unilaterally and illegally and declaring william router a kenya's next president. but after a largely peaceful election process, he also called on kenyans to remain calm for avoided or don't want to repeat that it totally. and he loves visuals, reject the presidential results announce yesterday, been i won't go mendoza, buttons with many gun and keeping the peace the i'd them to continue to do so. today, i do not want to fully address was told is going, fought, but suffice it to not do will be pushing on constitutional and legal options available to us. will they w 's or any of commodities in nairobi and told me how rather a danger statement had been r

and crimea will not be exempt from that. from that, because the crate is still what a claim reclaimed. that area, so it's, it's something that we're going to have to watch it's, it was predicted that, that even in the areas that russia occupies, that there would be insurgency of some kind. and this could, can, and as battalion and that richard from that areas. so that it seems that that would be a likely area for them to operate. and we, as we, we know we have no confirmation on any of these details. so far they were waiting for more information. however, it is being reported that tourists and local residents are leaving the nearby village of nova fed off on mass. how worried do you think the low cost should be? well, i depends upon their proximity to the explosion that doesn't. it's clearly visible. so i think that they'll probably want to move back somewhat. this could be a one, a one off thing. it could be the beginning of a trend. we don't know yet. as you point out, this is very preliminary and we need to see what if an

on most and with crimea, with its liberation. you'll zoom rushes, defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep in a rush, an occupying territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks and russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key. if i spoke to military analyst and conflict research and mike martin and asked him who he thought was behind the explosions, almost certainly it was the kind of armed forces throughout the war. things have happened that haven't gone moscow's way. for example, i'm sure your viewers remember the sinking of the mosque of a. they're all sorts of stories about how that was being towed to get broken down and then it sank. and of course,

on most and with crimea, with its liberation. you're all zoom. russia's defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep in russian occupied territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warn van would trigger massive retaliation including strikes on key iv i there i spoke to military analyst and conflict research and mike martin and asked him who he thought was behind the explosions. almost certainly, it was the kind of armed forces throughout the war. things have happened that haven't gone moscow's way. for example, i'm show your viewers remember the sinking of the mosque of a. they're all sorts of stories about how that was being towed to get broken down and then it sank. and of cours

number one, crimea, the premier population has been put under alert and this has created panic in crimea with people trying to flee this, this area which is no longer considered space. so this is very much one of the impacts. the other one is that this panic has actually reached the russian high command to the point where mobilization has been ordered in the in crimea, which is both interesting on a, on a military side of things, but also on a political one. because russia, russia, federations, of course, wanting everybody to believe that crimea is a part of russia. how can you mobilize only a small segment, a small area of the, of the country, and not call this the general mobilization for the entire country. a lot of the population in crimea that was sympathetic to ukraine and have fled. possibly some people who are still sympathetic and who would still like to join ukraine again. nobody really knows how many of these people exist. can be considered in what the ukraine and general staff caused part of fans. and we know for a fact that there has been a lot of passive resistance and also

and with crimea, with its liberation. yo zoom russia's defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident which took place deep in russian occupying territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on a russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key of my monson as a military analyst and conflict research. and i asked him her earlier who he thought was behind these explosions in crimea. of course it was the ukrainians. we've had this before from the russians when the moskva sankyo, your viewers will probably remember this russian ship that sank. they were all sorts of stories. and then it turned out that actually the guidance has far to miss it. the reason of course, that the ukraini

nevertheless, what we have seen in crimea challenges two myths, i think. firstly, that it is an impregnable base for russia to stage its naval fleet, as well as aircrafts to launch attacks on ukraine, but it also challenges the myth that crimea is part of russia. the ukraine government has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in these drone attacks. earlier, i spoke to paul scharre, who is the vice president and director at the center for a new american security and i asked him what he made of this new wave of attacks. they have certainly been effective at pushing russians back on their heels and making russians pay attention to defences in rear areas. in some cases the attacks have been very effective in destroying russian equipment on the ground. there was a major attack against a russian airbase where nine aircraft were destroyed on the ground. that is an absolutely devastating loss for the russian military but other factors beyond material destruction, notjust against the airbase but against command facilities, supply depots, transportation inf

and with crimea, with its liberation. you'll see. russia's defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident which took place deep in russian occupying territory. but as senior ukrainian officials suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far, ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea . officials and moscow warren, that would trigger massive retaliation, including strengths on key of mike martin is a military analyst and conflict research or from the u. k. and i asked him earlier, who he thought was behind these explosions and crimea, of course it was the ukrainians. we've had this before from the russians when the moskva st. your view is, will probably remember this russian ship that sank. they were all sorts of stories . and then it turned out that actually the cravings had fought to miss all of it. the reas

so that's crimea. let's update you with what's happening elsewhere in the country. 13 people have been killed in central ukraine, and 11 injured, in russian shelling overnight. that's according to local officials. the attacks centred on the dnipro—pet—rofsk region. that's important because it's located across the dnipro river from the russian— occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. today, world leaders from the g7 group of powerful countries called on moscow to give control of the plant back to ukraine. they said: the international atomic energy agency have this warning. there's a "very real risk of a nuclear disaster". here's our correspondent hugo bachega on that. the clean—up operation is under way in the southern town after the overnight attacks in the apartment blocks and the government buildings and two schools were hit and they do should windows shattered in one of the schools, the roof was damaged, the schools, the roof was damaged, the governor said that these attacks deliberately

on most and with crimea, with its liberation. yo zoom russia's defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep in russian occupying territory. but as senior ukrainian official suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisans, saboteurs, or russian incompetence. so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials and moscow warren that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key. if i spoke to military analyst and conflict res, such a mike martin and asked him who he thought was behind the explosions. oh my certainly it was the kind armed forces i'm with throughout the war. things have happened that haven't gone moscow's way. for example, i'm sure your views, remember the sinking of the moskva. they're all sorts of stories about how that was being towed broken down. and then it sank, and of course, what had happened

it was the 2nd assault of its kind against the naval command and crimea in less than a month. and it comes as russia claims to shut down drones elsewhere on the peninsula. russia annexed crimea in 2014. however, the international community still recognizes it as part of ukraine in crimea, the threat is, again coming from the skies resident and if pottery a film this video suggesting it shows russian air defenses impaction, there were indeed activated on saturday, according to law officials and in service topple a drone was shut down over the headquarters of russia's black sea fleet. police patrol the streets while residence face a new reality ought to run for a walk up in the morning had breakfast and after some time had a popping sound from an explosion. we had 2 similar ones yesterday evening while walking at the sea front. here it was a similar, distinctive popping sound. it's unclear what it was, is that you get nervous because of this noise. vocal attacks and rushes, military infrastructure in crimea are becoming more frequent. on tuesday explosions hit a military base an

let's remind ourselves why crimea is important. russia illegally invaded it in 2014 and has occupied it since. since russia's invasion of ukraine this year, its forces now also control all the areas you see in red. and the fact these strikes are hitting military bases in crimea is significant. defence editor at the economist shashankjoshi explains why. it forces russia to push its ammunition depots and command posts further away from the front lines. and that has both a sort of demoralising value, but it actually also has a logistical value because it makes life more difficult for russia to get all that ammunition, to get those weapons from those that oppose all the way to the front lines. russian officials initially said it happened because of a fire. now they've said this. translation: we are now seeing an official statement _ from the ministry of defence that today's emergency was caused by sabotage. so, russia blames sabotage. let's look at what ukraine is saying. it hasn't said it's responsible for the attack. here's one milit

there's a lot of attention on the crimea issue, underwrite the so because crimea is ukrainian until he will never renounce it. we will not forget that it was the occupation of crimea that was the beginning of the russian war against you kindly dw, correspond mathias bellingers following the story from kip. i asked him whether rushes claim that the explosions were an accident. seemed plausible. well yeah, the ukranian and the ministry of defense as sand that it advises the people in occupied crimea to adhere to smoking range regulations and russia, how sad it was an accident. but if you look at the video footage that people have shot from these explosions, then it's so very clear that an accidental fire is not very probable to explosions happening at the same time, at 2 different locations. that pretty much looks like an attack. ah, now who did it and why and how is another question over we have a several voices out of the ukranian government suggesting that it might have either been a partisan attack or some kind of a rocket. are you a v attack or this is very contradicted, and that's

the crimea can be released. with the condition that the russian navy will be substantially armed, and we see the results now. i think the ukrainian army is going with this plan. lewis: one other significant development today in ukraine, there has been an important meeting in copan hagan. this is the british, danish and ukrainian defense ministers are arriving. they're talking about long-term support ukraine, more funding, military training, mine clearance and weapons. this is a military analyst and ceo of a risk assessment company and we spoke about crimea. >> we don't have a lot of hard information about the site of the four explosions. we see fighters from naval aviation on the satellite images. russia is nowhere planes were lost. straightaway, that shows the story is not accurate. there are a couple of possibilities to this. ukraine has quietly indicated, again, take this with a pinch of salt, that special forces conducted the operation. now, it is certainly audacious in daylight. very large explosions raise