At least 13 killed in large-scale Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv | BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:00And we've also seen devastation across
2. 0:02the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Our
3. 0:04understanding is that at least 13 people
4. 0:06have been killed in that large-scale
5. 0:08Russian missile and drone strike on
6. 0:10Kyiv. Let's cross over to the Ukrainian
7. 0:12capital. My colleague, our correspondent
8. 0:14Sarah Rainsford, joins us now. A
9. 0:16devastating night for the Ukrainian
10. 0:18capital, Sarah.
11. 0:21>> Yeah, Kasia, a really difficult night
12. 0:23and a and a deadly one, as you say. At
13. 0:25the moment, we know that 13 people have
14. 0:26been killed and there are dozens of
15. 0:28people who've been injured as well. And
16. 0:30one site here in the capital, a
17. 0:32residential building, a block of flats,
18. 0:35has been very badly damaged, partially
19. 0:37destroyed, and rescuers there are still
20. 0:39looking for people, as we understand it,
21. 0:41underneath the rubble of that building.
22. 0:42So, a really tough night. There was some
23. 0:46warning that it was coming because
24. 0:47President Zelenskyy yesterday
25. 0:49let people here know that there was
26. 0:51intelligence that Russia was preparing
27. 0:53for a large-scale attack. What that
28. 0:55means is that Ukraine could see that
29. 0:57Russian bomber planes and and its jets
30. 1:00were being with missiles
31. 1:02ready to launch at Ukraine. So, lots of
32. 1:05people here were already underground, on
33. 1:06the metro or in shelters,
34. 1:09to seek shelter, to make sure that they
35. 1:11were safe through the night. But, of
36. 1:12course, that doesn't make it any less
37. 1:13devastating. The capital, the center of
38. 1:16the of the capital, came under attack.
39. 1:19It's not far away. I can see a plume of
40. 1:21gray smoke in that direction. I think
41. 1:22that's uh well, certainly it's from last
42. 1:24night's attack. I'm not sure what the
43. 1:26building itself is. There's another huge
44. 1:28cloud of smoke just in the other
45. 1:29direction as well, from last night's
46. 1:31attacks. So, our team here saw multiple
47. 1:34fires last night and heard at least 10
48. 1:37what was described as significant
49. 1:38strikes last night. Throughout the
50. 1:40night, the buildings here were shaking.
51. 1:42You know, this was a really big deal for
52. 1:44Ukrainians. And as I say, it was deadly
53. 1:46for so far 13 people here in the
54. 1:48capital.
55. 1:50>> Sarah, until now, we had been seeing
56. 1:53with Ukraine's increased drone
57. 1:55capabilities a shift in the direction of
58. 1:58travel when it comes to this grueling
59. 2:00war. What kind of setback does last
60. 2:04night's attacks mean for the Ukrainians?
61. 2:09>> I think as far as Ukrainians are
62. 2:11concerned, it shows that nothing has
63. 2:13changed in the sense that these massive
64. 2:15these large-scale attacks do happen
65. 2:17periodically every few weeks. Russia
66. 2:20prepares for them, it gets its missiles
67. 2:21and its drones ready and it launches
68. 2:23them and Ukraine, as it makes the point
69. 2:26multiple times, is now struggling to
70. 2:28intercept those missiles because it
71. 2:29doesn't have enough of the weaponry that
72. 2:31it needs to do that. So, again, the call
73. 2:33has gone out for more support for its
74. 2:35air defenses here in Ukraine. So, that's
75. 2:37one part, but certainly yes, Ukraine
76. 2:39with its long-range drones has been
77. 2:41striking targets inside Russia itself
78. 2:43and also in Crimea, the the peninsula
79. 2:46that Russia annexed illegally 12 years
80. 2:49ago from Ukraine, targeting sites there.
81. 2:51And that is part, as Ukraine sees it, of
82. 2:53an attempt to really ramp up the
83. 2:56pressure on Vladimir Putin to force him
84. 2:58to come to the negotiation table to talk
85. 3:00about peace because at this point
86. 3:02Ukraine has been saying for a couple of
87. 3:03months now it wants to talk peace, it
88. 3:05wants to end this war through
89. 3:07negotiations, but sees no sign that
90. 3:09Vladimir Putin is ready for that. And I
91. 3:11think as far as Ukraine is concerned,
92. 3:12last night was pretty clear evidence
93. 3:15that he wants to continue fighting this
94. 3:17war his way and that includes these very
95. 3:19large-scale strikes which are now
96. 3:20hitting the center of of Ukraine's
97. 3:23capital.
98. 3:24>> Sarah, to you and the team as always,
99. 3:26many thanks. Sarah Rainsford there in
100. 3:28the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.