Russia pummels Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Millions of Ukrainians have spent a day without power, after Russia targeted key energy infrastructure and carried out 188 overnight strikes. We speak to two women running businesses in Kyiv about how they have been coping with power cuts ever since the war began.
Also in the programme: US and China release prisoners in swap; and an interview with Justin Sun who paid over six million dollars for the controversial banana artwork.
(Photo: young woman walks with a flashlight amid power cuts following a country-wide drone and rocket shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit: Sergey Dolzhenko / Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.1 | Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kimmeras Sami. |
| 0:09.5 | We begin today in Ukraine, where millions of people have spent the day without power |
| 0:13.8 | after a massive Russian attack on the country's energy infrastructure. |
| 0:18.8 | According to the Ukrainian military, there are a total of 188 strikes |
| 0:22.7 | overnight, a combination of drones and crews and ballistic missiles were responsible. It's been |
| 0:28.8 | another pummeling for a power grid that's taken blow after blow ever since Russia's full-scale |
| 0:33.5 | invasion began nearly three years ago. Speaking in Kazakhstan, President Vladimir Putin threatened to target what he called |
| 0:40.7 | decision-making centers in Kiev with a new ballistic missile called Arashnik, |
| 0:46.0 | and he characterized the overnight bombardment as a response to Ukraine striking Russian |
| 0:51.2 | territory with Western-supp supplied long-range missiles. |
| 0:58.5 | Last night, we carried out a comprehensive strike using 90 missiles and 100 drones. |
| 1:04.8 | These strikes on our part also took place in response to the ongoing strikes on Russian territory |
| 1:10.4 | by American Atakam's missiles. |
| 1:13.3 | As I have said many times, there will always be a response from our side. |
| 1:18.3 | In Ukraine, President Zelensky used his nightly address to accuse President Putin of stepping |
| 1:23.3 | up military actions, not just to cause maximum hardship to the Ukrainian people, but to |
| 1:28.8 | undercut U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's peacemaking plans. |
| 1:36.6 | Today in Kazakhstan, Putin once again promoted his missiles, his readiness to kill and destroy. |
| 1:44.2 | To the thousands of missiles that have already hit Ukraine, Putin apparently wants to add |
| 1:51.4 | thousands more. He does not need this war to end. Moreover, Putin wants to prevent others |
| 1:59.4 | from ending this war. |
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