relations were already difficult after
finland applied to join nato prompted by
the war in ukraine now moscow has taken
action against its neighbor over energy
supplies
russia's energy giant gazprom has
switched off gas deliveries it says
finland is refusing to comply with the
demand that it pay for energy in rubles
meanwhile the british foreign secretary
has said she wants to see ukraine's
neighbor moldova armed with nato
standard military equipment to guard it
against potential russian aggression
in ukraine itself russian forces are
intensifying their battle to capture
more territory in the eastern donbas
region and they've taken complete
control of mariupol with more on the
fate of the soldiers captured there
here's our correspondent in ukraine joe
inward
so these reports would take the total
number who have surrendered and left the
as of style steel works to 1730
about 80 of those we understand are
severely wounded who are evacuated but
the rest have been taken to detention
facilities in the don x people's
republic couple of questions what
happens to them next we've heard debates
in the russian duma the parliament
saying that some of them the members of
the azov battalion shouldn't be treated
as prisoners of war but should be
treated as war criminals these are
people that the russian state accused of
being nazis something which the
ukrainians deny and has been widely
discredited but it does seem that not
all of them potentially will be treated
according to the geneva conventions
that is going to pose difficult
questions for anyone who remains inside
i should say we don't really have
confirmed numbers of this but it has
been said that the leaders of the azov
battalion are yet to give themselves up
but the united nations and the red cross
we understand have been involved in
monitoring their treatment the situation
and the red cross say they are
documenting the locations of these
people but what happens to them whether
they are given over in some sort of
prisoner exchange with the ukrainians or
whether some of them are put on trial
for some charges as yet unknown is going
to be a really really important question
the answer to which we'll find out
in the coming days weeks months even
elsewhere in the conflict we have
reports of increased shelling in the
donbass this is the eastern region where
the ukrainians are holding out or
defending entrenches against russian
advances we've got reports of continued
ukrainian counter
uh around hakeev the city in the north
that they've recently repelled the
russians from and finally reports of
ukrainian shells destroying a an alcohol
factory inside russian territory killing
one man a van driver and we are seeing
increasingly these instances of the war
finding itself onto russian territory
something the people there were not
really expecting and don't seem to be
particularly comfortable with
and as we're reporting russia's energy
giant gas prom has switched off gas
deliveries to finland for refusing to
comply with the demand that it pay for
energy in rubles i spoke earlier to
emelina lindbergh from the stockholm
environment institute and she told us
how this might affect the cost of living
in finland
now we are approaching summer
and the weather is not as cold and
finland
the main energy need is actually coming
during the winter season
the gas supply from russia has been
mainly channeled into the heavy industry
as well as the
heating necessity for the household in
finland
now as we are approaching summer that
necessity or the demand for the heating
is obviously going down
and hence that's actually giving a good
opportunity for the government to
prepare
for the next winter to secure the energy
supply for the next time
so currently we don't see much effect or
economic impact that we can tell us
obviously has been stated as well by the
finnish
government
this is mainly because
on top of that timing
the
energy mix or the portfolio of finland
has been quite diverse
um okay because yeah i was wondering how
much work finland has already done prior
to the war in ukraine prior to all of
this
to
diversify where it gets its energy from
to increase its energy security
yes correct i think the
the diversity of the energy mix
portfolio in finland has been quite
great
since the last decade i think we can see
that for uh forest has been one of the
main key energy source so finland has
been relying on the wood fuel
from there for us as well as the hydro
power as well as the nuclear power i
think we can say that
only around 20
of the total energy consumption in the
2020 is coming actually from the fossil
i'm linda lindbergh there from the
stockholm environment institute