This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 26th of August.

These are our main stories.

The Ukrainian president says Russia targeted his country with about 200 missiles and

drones on Monday. He's urging his allies to use their air defense capabilities to intercept

attacks in Ukrainian airspace.

There have been a string of attacks in southwestern Pakistan.

In the worst single incident, ethnic Punjabi's appear to have been singled out and then

shot.

Also in this podcast, we'll hear from one of the treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, overwhelmed with MPOCs patients.

We are full of fear because we are crowded in our shelters, we sleep in very poor conditions, we share

bedings. Prevention is difficult and because of that we are afraid.

And Germany suggests it will toughen its approach to what it's calling irregular migrants.

Russia has launched a large-scale missile and drone barrage on Ukraine.

More than half of its regions were targeted and the whole country was put on air raid alert.

President Zelensky has appealed for more help from his Western allies.

In our country, we're going to be

in our various regions of Ukraine

we could do much more to protect lives if the aviation of our European neighbours

work together with our F-16s and together with our air defence.

If such unity has worked so well in the Middle East, it should work

in Europe as well.

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