Massive Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital kills at least 25 and injures many more | BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:00At least 25 people have been killed in
2. 0:02Ukraine after Russia launched a
3. 0:04large-scale attack on the capital, Kyiv.
4. 0:07Dozens of others have been injured.
5. 0:09Ukraine says Moscow launched more than
6. 0:1170 missiles and almost 500 drones in an
7. 0:14assault that lasted 8 hours,
8. 0:16deliberately targeting residential areas
9. 0:18across several neighborhoods. Sarah
10. 0:20Rainsford reports now from Kyiv.
11. 0:26>> Kyiv was under attack right through the
12. 0:28night,
13. 0:29shaken by huge explosions,
14. 0:32as Russia targeted this city with its
15. 0:35missiles and drones,
16. 0:37and Ukraine tried to defend itself.
17. 0:42This morning, fires were still being
18. 0:44doused. Houses and even hotels were in
19. 0:48flames, with destruction all over
20. 0:51Ukraine's capital.
21. 0:53And at one block of flats, rescuers were
22. 0:55pulling survivors from the remains of
23. 0:57their homes.
24. 0:58A missile hit this building directly
25. 1:01while families inside were sleeping.
26. 1:06Svetlana lives opposite, and all her
27. 1:08windows were blown out as she crouched
28. 1:10in the corridor for safety.
29. 1:13Her mother was killed in another Russian
30. 1:14airstrike, and her son died fighting for
31. 1:17Ukraine.
32. 1:20>> I lost all those most dear to me in just
33. 1:232 years. And now they've hit us here.
34. 1:27But somehow, we have to go on living.
35. 1:30And we will, because if we live, so will
36. 1:33Ukraine.
37. 1:35>> We've been told that there are several
38. 1:37people still missing, and that they
39. 1:39could be trapped somewhere
40. 1:41under all of that.
41. 1:43And this is a residential neighborhood.
42. 1:45There are apartment blocks here. There's
43. 1:46a kindergarten. And yet, two Russian
44. 1:49missiles slammed into the middle of this
45. 1:52area in this latest attack.
46. 1:55The Kremlin claims it's retaliation for
47. 1:57this. Ukrainian drones reaching deeper
48. 2:00than ever across the border and doing
49. 2:02real damage to Russian oil refineries.
50. 2:05But when Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the
51. 2:07bomb site in Kyiv, he accused Vladimir
52. 2:10Putin of targeting civilians because
53. 2:13he's losing his war.
54. 2:16Ukraine wants to force Putin into peace
55. 2:18talks. For now, he's chosen escalation
56. 2:21instead. Sarah Rainsford, BBC News,
57. 2:24Kyiv.