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Global News Podcast

Ukraine says Russia broke pledge not to attack

Global News Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Documentary

4.27.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of launching air attacks after a limited pause was agreed. Also: Mexico City waves goodbye to bullfighting, and why the JFK assassination has sparked so many conspiracy theories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service.

0:04.8

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

0:06.6

We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Wednesday the 19th of March.

0:11.2

President Zelensky has accused Vladimir Putin

0:13.1

of breaking a promise not to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

0:17.2

Turkish police have arrested the president's biggest political rival at Krem Imamulu,

0:22.1

the popular mayor of Istanbul.

0:24.1

And the UN says two of its staff have been killed at one of its compounds in Gaza.

0:31.0

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0:44.9

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0:56.3

Putin is playing a game. So says the German foreign minister after the Russian president appeared to go back on his promise not to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Russia reportedly

1:01.5

hit an electricity system in Ukraine just hours after the Trump-Putin phone call. President Zelensky

1:07.8

said Russia's words didn't match its actions.

1:23.6

Even after Putin's conversation with the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump,

1:29.3

when Putin said that he was supposedly giving the order to stop the strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector, there were 150 drone attacks overnight, including on energy facilities.

1:37.1

There were also strikes on transport, unfortunately two hospitals were hit, and there were

1:43.4

strikes on ordinary urban infrastructure.

1:46.5

That means to say Putin's words are very, very at odds with reality.

1:52.9

For its part, Russia accused Ukraine of attempting to disrupt peace talks by targeting an oil storage facility on its territory.

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