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You're watching bbc news — a reminder of the headlines. final results are declared in northern ireland's assembly election — with an historic win for the irish nationalist party — sinn fein. ukraine says all women, children and the elderly have now been evacuated from azovstal steel plant in the city of mariupol. and staying with ukraine. liam collins is a retired us army colonel and special forces officer. he worked with ukraine to reform its military after russia annexed crimea. i asked him how well ukrainian soldiers are doing — or if the real question is, how badly the russian army...

Ahead of the may the ninth victory day celebrations would be hugely symbolic for vladimir putin. so some are wondering, now that the civilians are out, what will happen to that planned and what will happen to these fighters and it may be that any negotiations under way are a race against time. liam collins is a retired colonel and special forces officer, who has served in a variety of operations and multiple combat operations to afghanistan, iraq and bosnia among others during his 27 year career. he has also worked extensively with ukraine to introduce substantial reforms within its military a...

Joining us now to discuss, retired army colonel liam collins. he served as an executive officer for the u.s. senior def defense adviser to ukraine. this is not the first time we've seen this. we've seen a whole host of these things that could be attacks. ukrainian officials are not confirming or denying they're behind them. when you look at these, do they look like sabotage operations by ukrainian forces inside russia? >> yes, these are obviously attacks. if a country's at war, that's the most like live exly explana. it clearly is coming from the ukrainians. yes. >> a look at what's happening ...

Constantly look at it every day, monitor it, change it, adapt it as needed. >> we've been listening to pentagon press secretary john kirby talking about what we were just talking about at the wall there about this russian warship. he says that they have been able to assess that there was a major explosion on board and some crew members had evacuated, but he's not sure what the state of that warship is now. joining us now is liam collins. colonel, just what we were discussing, which is something happened on board that russian warship. something happened that made them withdraw from the coast an...

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