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It belonged to the state emergency services. the loss of such a key government minister on board has been called a national tragedy. very patriotic guy, did a lot of things for ukraine and made police reform in ukraine, and its actually a tragedy for ukraine, for his family. denys monastyrsky was often at scenes like this, inspecting damage to the latest target of a russian missile attack. he was a personal friend of the president and was well known to several western leaders. theyve been sendin...

Kherson very boldly, but this is a real setback for them, even if it was just an accident. the real setback for them, even if it wasjust an accident.— real setback for them, even if it wasjust an accident. was ust an accident. the war rages on wasjust an accident. the war rages on and we are _ wasjust an accident. the war rages on and we are coming _ wasjust an accident. the war rages on and we are coming up _ wasjust an accident. the war rages on and we are coming up to - wasjust an accident....

Denys monastyrsky was often at scenes like this, inspecting damage to the latest target of a russian missile attack. he was a personal friend of the president and was well known to several western leaders. theyve been sending their condolences. despite this setback, ukraines war effort is unlikely to slacken off. the country remains focused on resisting russias missile attacks and on preparing for a coming spring offensive by both sides. frank gardner, bbc news. 0ur security correspondent frank ...

Suggestion that there might be a spring offensive by russia. there has been an attempt to try to get bigger and better weapons to ukraine, so to speak. this idea that youre able to tip the balance now, youre able to tip the balance now, you should give ukraine as much support as you can. thus a large part of this debate about sending in tanks, and we also saw in recent weeks the approval of the americans and the germans, and even today, the dutch announced they would send patriot missile batteri...

In back moot right now and not worried her invest-year-old father volunteered to fight in this war, now hes in a russian prison colony. >> its killing me, killing us. and its just hard, its just -- you were a family and now you need to survive each day. >> scott mclean, cnn kiev. and ukraines military is getting some help from western alleys ahead of an expect russian spring offensive, saturday britain became the latest country to promise tanks to ukraine following a pledge from france, u.k. s...

This terrible mess to happen, a war with a brother nation. >> reporter: all of this after vladimir putin standing amid russian soldiers attempted to rally the nation in his new years address. theres nothing stronger than love for our near and dear he says, loyalty to our friends and comrades in arms and devotion to our fatherland. now putin has demoted the man in charge of the land and replacing him with russias top general whose close to putin and russias defense minister, often accompanying th...

Of the winter, so i dont look at this in the fog of war, one single battle. 0r this in the fog of war, one single battle. or that outcome to predict what will happen over the next several months in the winter and what is likely to be a spring offensive. what is likely to be a spring offensive-— what is likely to be a spring offensive. �*, ., ,, ., offensive. lets talk about the s - rinu offensive. lets talk about the spring because _ offensive. lets talk about the spring because this _ offen...

That ukraine needs, not only to be defensive, as weve seen. when you look at protecting against missile strikes and drone strikes, but to enable ukraine to go on the offensive as were talking about right now. whether its in the middle of winter, in the spring, or later, i dont think we need to dictate the timing for them to do what they think is right. but there has to be a decision made to provide the type of of ants weaponry that ukraine once that seems to be opening coming forward —— adva...

Figured ukrainians would have to withdraw from the town. it is just a matter of when. president zelenskyy said the russians need to take soledar. they need it to gin up support for the war back home after what has been a very difficult few months on the battlefield for the russians. case in point, just three months into his tenure, the commander of this so-called military operation has been replaced by a plan of the senior russian military official for the past decade. officially this is to coor...

By western countries. and the ukrainians are saying they need this help, they need heavy weapons and equipment to try and resume the counteroffensive after weather improves and try to take back territory that is now under occupation so this is going to be celebrated by the ukrainians, for sure. . ~ celebrated by the ukrainians, for sure. ., ~ i. joining us now from bath — former infantry captain in the british army, nato analyst, and defence expert at the university of bath, dr patrick bewrey....