Russian strikes hit dozens of locations in the Ukrainian capital
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Many people have been killed in Russian airstrikes on Kyiv, including a six-year-old boy and his mother. Ukrainian officials say the attacks also brought down an apartment block. It happened despite Donald Trump imposing a new deadline on President Putin to agree to a ceasefire or face fresh US sanctions. Also: Washington's envoy, Steve Witkoff, is meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to salvage ceasefire talks and help improve the dire conditions in Gaza, and what archaeologists are learning from tattoos found on a two-and-a-half-thousand year-old mummy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Jackie Leonard and at 13 hours GMT on Thursday the 31st of July, these are our main |
| 0:11.3 | stories. Russian strikes kill at least nine people in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and |
| 0:16.9 | Washington's envoy, Steve Witkoff, is meeting the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:21.8 | to try to salvage ceasefire talks and help improve the dire conditions in Gaza. |
| 0:29.3 | Also in this podcast, the World Food Program in Nigeria says drastic aid cuts have left a million displaced people at the mercy of jihadists. |
| 0:38.8 | It will be much easier for the militants to lure other youths to join them |
| 0:44.0 | and they spiral the insecurity across the whole region. |
| 0:48.0 | And what do we need to know about children and screen time |
| 0:51.4 | and how to protect developing brains. |
| 1:05.8 | We start in Ukraine, where the capital Kiev has come under fire again by a barrage of Russian weapons. |
| 1:13.2 | At least nine people were killed and dozens more were injured as drones and missiles hit at least 27 locations. |
| 1:19.1 | Several districts of the city were attacked and an apartment block was destroyed. The dead included a six-year-old boy. This man was in his apartment when the attack happened. |
| 1:25.1 | The main thing is that we're alive and I hope the apartment will be okay too. |
| 1:30.4 | I was just lying in bed when there was a really bright flash, then a very loud explosion. |
| 1:35.7 | We heard blasts before, but nothing like this. |
| 1:39.1 | Our defence correspondent in Kiev, Jonathan Beale, told us more. |
| 1:43.3 | There were more than 300 drones fired from Russia towards Ukraine overnight. |
| 1:49.2 | Most of those focused on the capital, Kiev. |
| 1:53.1 | And it's been a fairly quiet few days, partly because they're thunderstorms. |
| 1:57.6 | So quiet in the sense, no, not many Russian strikes going on, but certainly |
| 2:03.0 | last night it was quite intense. Also missiles fired, lighting up the sky as they hit the ground, |
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