Russia attacks infrastructure in Ukraine
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine reacts with resignation to Russia attacking its infrastructure, hours after Vladimir Putin told President Trump he was halting such strikes.
Also in the programme: we hear from a doctor in Gaza as attacks by Israel resume; and after a federal court rules that actions taken to shut down USAID by Elon Musk and DOGE 'likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways', we hear from the former White House counsel leading the charge.
(IMAGE: View of a strike on a hospital, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Krasnopillia, Sumy Region, Ukraine, March 19, 2025 / CREDIT: State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the program. This is News Hour from the BBC World Service, coming to you |
| 0:08.6 | live from London. I'm Paul Henley. The Ukrainian president says his country's energy and other |
| 0:14.7 | infrastructure has been hit in a large-scale Russian drone attack, just hours after Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump |
| 0:21.9 | that Moscow would stop targeting energy sites in Ukraine. |
| 0:26.1 | Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russian leader |
| 0:27.8 | had rejected a comprehensive ceasefire in his phone call with Mr. Trump. |
| 0:32.3 | Speaking in Helsinki, Mr. Zelensky said Mr. Putin's words |
| 0:36.7 | did not match Russia's actions. |
| 0:43.5 | Even after Putin's conversation with the President of the United States of America, |
| 0:48.8 | when he said that he was supposedly giving the order to stop the strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector, |
| 0:55.3 | there were 150 drone strikes overnight, |
| 0:58.6 | including on energy facilities, on transport, two hospitals were hit, |
| 1:03.8 | ordinary urban infrastructure. |
| 1:06.8 | Putin's words are very, very at odds with reality. |
| 1:10.5 | However, the former United Russia MP and ally of Vladimir Pernier, Putin's words are very, very at odds with reality. |
| 1:16.5 | However, the former United Russia MP and ally of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Markov, |
| 1:20.3 | told the BBC that any ceasefire was still only one in principle. |
| 1:24.7 | Therefore, there was no breach and other conditions still needed to be met. Before starting this embargo on the strike against power energy infrastructure, |
| 1:32.5 | it should be some kind of agreements about how it will be done |
| 1:38.0 | and about technical monitoring and who will make such monitoring of cease temporary ceasefire? |
| 1:45.0 | But of course, this agreement of President Putin and Trump |
| 1:49.4 | about limitation of the strikes during this war, |
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