Pres Zelensky has sacked the head of the State Security Service after an alleged assassination plot.

Two colonels who worked for Serhiy Leonidovich were arrested.

Seperately, another officer from the dept has been charged with murder after drunkenly punching a teenager.

Another large-scale 🇷🇺missile and drone attack across 🇺🇦:

- Infrastructure struck in 7 regions

- 3 thermal power stations hit

- Kherson's station & tracks damaged

On the day marking the end of Nazi occupation in WWII, Pres Zelensky says Ukraine endures the same horrors today.

- The arrest of two colonels responsible for keeping officials safe
- Plans to convince one of Zelensky’s bodyguards to kill him
- Hired as moles by Russia

The alleged assassination plot in Ukraine which stands out from the rest:

Feels a bit early 2022 with Moscow announcing military drills & gathering thousands of troops on its border.

This time they're a fraction of 2 years ago & this tactical nuclear weapons exercise is 'in response to threats by certain Western officials'.

Same but different.

Our film with the some of the weary Ukrainian frontline troops wanting change with how their army recruits.

With Xavier Vanpevenaege Anna Chornous Thanyarat Doksone

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“If we go home, a lot of inexperienced soldiers will die”

New: Ukrainian frontline troops tell the BBC the army needs to rethink how it conscripts men to fight.

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Ukraine’s intelligence service claims to strike again with a marine drone in occupied Crimea. This time reportedly hitting a Russian speedboat to the west of the peninsula.

For 18 months I’ve dug into how Russia has effectively vanished 100s of Ukrainians with disabilities into occupied territory or Russia itself. Those who escaped told me most are held incommunicado in squalid conditions& forced to take Russian passports 🧵independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

If the news is bad at home, come to Ukraine to talk up a success?

A hawkish Lord Cameron said Ukraine “had the right” to use some of the UK’s £3bn of military aid hitting targets inside Russia.

A view not shared by most western allies.

Vovan, the central figure in our BBC film 'Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods' has been killed alongside 5 comrades in a Russian tank attack. A kind, genuine soul who cared deeply for his men. Rarely seen without a smile. He leaves behind a wife & two sons. Rest in peace Vovan.

Ukrainian woman, 98, walks six miles from occupied village to safety bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Ukrainian woman, 98, walks six miles from occupied village to safety bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

“I won’t do that again!”

A memorable story from the Donetsk region in the form of 98-year-old Lidiia.

She walked 10km to escape approaching Russian troops..in her slippers.

Xavier Vanpevenaege Anastasiia Levchenko Mohamed Madi

Favourite interview transcript to date:

'Oh (talking to James) you are young and have such a beard!'

Bosses not buying it as a headline.

At least five people have been killed & 23 injured after a Russian cluster bomb hit Odesa’s waterfront, according to officials.

A building known as “Harry Potter Castle” was hit, where prominent former MP Serhiy Kivalov lives & runs a law academy. He’s among the wounded.

The Duchess of Edinburgh has become the first member of the Royal Family to visit Ukraine since the Russian invasion.

Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse had details of the one-day visit on #BBCBreakfast

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Why significant Russian gains are likely to precede any Ukrainian benefits from American aid, with Jane Hill.