Fatalities in Kharkiv following Russian strike on superstore
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky denounced the deadly airstrike on the crowded DIY superstore as an act of Russian madness. Also: massive fire at games arcade in India, and the Disney composer Richard Sherman dies aged 95.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday the 26th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:09.9 | Ukraine's President, Selensky has condemned a deadly air attack on a crowded |
| 0:14.6 | super store in the city of Harkiv as an act of Russian madness. More than 20 people |
| 0:19.7 | have been killed in a fire at an entertainment complex in the Indian state of Gujarat. |
| 0:24.0 | South Africa's political parties have been holding their final rallies ahead of Wednesday's general election. |
| 0:32.0 | Also in this podcast, we head to a Japanese auction house. |
| 0:35.0 | And we find out why people would buy a piece of fruit that costs as much as a half decent car. |
| 0:48.0 | We begin in Ukraine. |
| 0:53.0 | Russian airstrikes hit a busy DIY superstore in the city of Kharkiv on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring many others. |
| 1:03.0 | President Valodemiles Zelensky said it was thought more than 200 people were inside the complex at the time. |
| 1:09.6 | Firefighters had to tackle intense flames, a column of thick black smoke was seen rising over the site. |
| 1:16.5 | Local officials said there was no military facility nearby. |
| 1:20.3 | Mr Zelensky denounced the airstrikes. The attack on Kharkiv is yet another demonstration of Russian madness. |
| 1:29.0 | It is not possible to call it anything else. |
| 1:32.0 | It is only someone crazy like Putin that is capable of |
| 1:36.0 | killing and terrorizing people in such a mean way. |
| 1:40.6 | Our international editor Jeremy Bowen sent this report from the scene. |
| 1:44.0 | I've just been talking to the mayor. He said this happened about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| 1:48.0 | It's a DIY superstore, an obvious place you think for civilians to go on a Saturday afternoon. |
| 1:56.8 | One of the strange incongruities of the war is that in a way a modicum of normal life does go on while the war |
| 2:05.4 | continues so people were out doing what they had to do when this place was |
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