Summary
Russian missile strike hits a shopping centre in central-eastern Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky says that more than 1,000 people were inside. Vadym Yudenko lives in the city and tells us what he saw. Diplomatic Editor, James Landale updates us on the G7 meeting in Germany where leaders have pledged their continuing support for Ukraine. And we hear from the BBC’s Joel Gunter who has just returned from Saltivka, in Kharkiv, where he met residents still living in their bombed-out apartments. Host Vitaly is joined by Kateryna Khinkulova from BBC World Service. Today’s podcast was produced by Clare Williamson, Ivana Davidovic, Osman Iqbal and Louise Hidalgo. The technical producer was Frank Mcweeny. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | Hello, it's 124 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. |
| 0:11.4 | We recorded this podcast early afternoon and Monday, then this happened. |
| 0:23.1 | I've come back to the Ukraine car studio to update Ukraine car listeners around the world |
| 0:28.2 | on the Russian missile strike that hit a shopping center in central Ukraine. |
| 0:32.8 | President Vladimir Zelensky says that more than a thousand people were inside. |
| 0:37.8 | The pictures and sounds coming from the site are horrific. |
| 0:43.8 | This is Ukraine car. |
| 0:45.8 | Ukraine car from this house. |
| 0:49.8 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defense to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 0:59.4 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:04.2 | Who is the aggression? |
| 1:06.2 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:12.2 | Hello, this is Vitaly in the Ukraine car studio in London. |
| 1:16.2 | And this is Katya also in the Ukraine car studio also in London. |
| 1:21.8 | While world leaders of the G7 are meeting in Germany, |
| 1:25.0 | President Putin has escalated the conflict with an attack on a shopping center in a key Ukrainian industrial city. |
| 1:45.0 | President Zelensky writing on telegram said the shopping centers on fire, |
| 1:50.2 | fighters are trying to extinguish the fire, the number of victims is impossible to imagine. |
| 1:55.8 | Kremlin chuk has a population of just over 200,000 people and it's very far from the front lines. |
| 2:02.6 | Vadim Yudanko lives in the city and was having lunch when he heard the explosions. |
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