police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi and killed at least 27 people. #upin # up in space, man. # bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight s eurovision. but will it be enough to hold back the favourites, ukraine? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that the russians have withdrawn from the kharkiv city area in the direction of the russian border. he said said his city was no longer being shelled by the russians and people were gradually returning. the us think tank the insitute of the study of war earlier said russia had failed in its efforts to encircle the city, and now appears to be concentrating on getting its troops safely back across the russian border. russian troops are instead focusing their attacks in the donbas region, which is now seeing some of the heaviest fighting. our correspondent in lviv, joe inwood, told us mor
but warned that many residential areas were badly damaged or destroyed. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached. as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility. it s a scene replicated right across ukraine s second city, much of which has been reduced to rubble. but kharkiv is known as a fortress city. in this invasion, it has earned that name. its defenders have resisted, and now repelled the russians. the battle for kharkiv, it seems, has been won. it s a very different story from that of mariupol, where russia seems confident enough of the victory to be redeploying troops to the donbas region. the ukrainian government says it wants to arm a million men for what is increas
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taking calculated risks. previously with the proxy war, russia support in donbas, illegal annexation of crimea, and the 2008 russia georgia war, we saw that these russian operations, these russian wars had limits. now we can see, or we can t see rather, where the limits of russian aggression is. and finland seeks the most comprehensive form of deterrent, that is nato s collective defence and nato s nuclear deterrent. the finnish train for nato membership has left the station and there is no going back at this point. that s very interesting. can you give us a sense of what is the historic relationship between finland and russia? well, finland, as abbreviated by the term finlandisation, finland has always. during the cold war, finland has tried to balance its relations between east and west to accommodate russian strategic concerns,