Ukraine warns of interceptor missile shortage as at least 22 killed in Kyiv region | BBC News — Transcript

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1. 0:00Next, residents of the Ukrainian capital
2. 0:03experienced another night of deadly
3. 0:05attacks as Russia launched a wave of
4. 0:07missiles and drones at Kev and its
5. 0:10surroundings. At least 17 people were
6. 0:12killed. Rescuers have been trying to
7. 0:14reach people trapped inside three blocks
8. 0:16of flats that have partially collapsed.
9. 0:19Ukraine's air force says a serious
10. 0:21shortage of interceptor missiles meant
11. 0:24none of the 23 ballistic missiles
12. 0:26launched by Russia were actually shot
13. 0:28down. President Zilinski urged Ukraine's
14. 0:31allies to take strong decisions at
15. 0:33Tuesday's NATO summit and to provide it
16. 0:36with more air defenses. Our
17. 0:39correspondent Sarah Reignsford is at the
18. 0:41scene of one of the attacks in Kev. This
19. 0:44is one of the ninestory apartment blocks
20. 0:46that was hit last night in this latest
21. 0:49largescale attack by Russia. The
22. 0:51authorities are saying it was a missile
23. 0:53that hit here directly and you can see
24. 0:54the damage. I mean, it is huge. There's
25. 0:56a big hole through the middle of this
26. 0:58block of flats. Uh lots of flats
27. 1:00destroyed up at the top. Huge slabs of
28. 1:02concrete that have crashed down onto the
29. 1:04floors below. And there are rescuers and
30. 1:07uh recovery teams working at the scene
31. 1:08with the big diggers and the cranes to
32. 1:10try to clear that rubble to try to make
33. 1:12the area safe, but also because we
34. 1:15believe that there could be some people
35. 1:16still missing. There's a lady uh on a
36. 1:18bench over there who's been crying and
37. 1:20we were told that she had two relatives
38. 1:22who are still missing and perhaps are
39. 1:24somewhere uh beneath the ruins of their
40. 1:27home. We also spoke to a lady Elena who
41. 1:30lives in the other part of the building
42. 1:32which is more or less intact now. She
43. 1:34said she heard one explosion and then
44. 1:36she got out of bed and she rushed
45. 1:37towards the shelter and then uh the
46. 1:39second explosion hit. She said it shook
47. 1:41the building terribly. She was
48. 1:43terrified. uh she hadn't gone to the
49. 1:45shelter but after that she went straight
50. 1:46down but of course uh by that point
51. 1:48already people had been killed here and
52. 1:50the scene was the same is the same at
53. 1:52several uh blocks of flats across
54. 1:55Ukraine's capital and one question that
55. 1:57Alena had for me she said it looks like
56. 2:00we didn't intercept many missiles last
57. 2:03night and she said she had a question
58. 2:04for Ukraine's allies which is why is
59. 2:07that if Ukraine needs more interceptor
60. 2:09missiles she wants to know why they're
61. 2:11not coming and that's the question that
62. 2:13President Zen ski had too. Uh he pointed
63. 2:16to the shortage of particularly Patriot
64. 2:18interceptor missiles for Ukraine's air
65. 2:20defenses and he said the shortage of
66. 2:22those is causing scenes like this with
67. 2:24with more and more uh frequency. This is
68. 2:28another massive attack, large scale
69. 2:30attack by Russia just 4 days after an
70. 2:32attack on Kiev uh killed uh at least 30
71. 2:35people here in the capital.
72. 2:38>> Thanks to Sarah for that. We'll hear
73. 2:39more from her in a moment. But first,
74. 2:41Olga Marcha is here. And Olga, you've
75. 2:44managed to speak to people, some of the
76. 2:46survivors effectively in some of the
77. 2:47damaged buildings. What have they been
78. 2:48telling you?
79. 2:49>> Well, I've been talking to two women who
80. 2:51managed to who to survive this awful
81. 2:54attack. And one of them whose name is
82. 2:56Vit Lana, she told me that she lives on
83. 2:59the 17th floor of the of that high-rise
84. 3:03building and she has two children. So
85. 3:06when the attack happened at night, she
86. 3:08had to pack her children really quickly
87. 3:11and they were running down the stairs
88. 3:14from the 17th floor and I hope I can see
89. 3:16the video now. That's the video she sent
90. 3:19me. She managed to film it on her phone.
91. 3:21That's their block on flats on fire.
92. 3:24Then she said also that the roof of the
93. 3:27block was completely on fire. And then
94. 3:30while the fire brigade was coming to
95. 3:32help them while the rescues were on the
96. 3:34way the residents of the block started
97. 3:36to deal with fire themselves and her
98. 3:38husband and other men they rushed
99. 3:41upstairs trying to get water there and
100. 3:44that's how they managed to preserve u
101. 3:47some flats and some homes but obviously
102. 3:50some of them it was not possible to to
103. 3:52save them. So I suggest listening to
104. 3:55what Sutlana told us. just send us a
105. 3:57little clip explaining what happened.
106. 4:04>> It's the debris from the enemy drone
107. 4:06that landed on my home. The residents
108. 4:09tried to put out the fire while the
109. 4:11rescuers were on their way. There is a
110. 4:14lot of damage to the roof and the flats
111. 4:17below it, but our neighbors managed to
112. 4:20stop the fire before it ruined all the
113. 4:22homes. Russians are evil. We have been
114. 4:26living under these horrifying attacks
115. 4:28day and night hoping that one day evil
116. 4:32will be held accountable.
117. 4:36>> We saw Slana standing on the roof of the
118. 4:38block of flats where she has been living
119. 4:41and she also explained that there is
120. 4:43actually no shelter in that block. So
121. 4:44they had to go just somewhere into the
122. 4:47basement and to be able to do that they
123. 4:49had to rush out of the building on the
124. 4:51streets and obviously putting themselves
125. 4:54under the danger of being killed on
126. 4:56their way. But you know that's
127. 4:58everything they could do really while
128. 5:00trying to risk their children and
129. 5:02themselves. And I spoke to someone else
130. 5:03who's called Kate uh Katina in Ukrainian
131. 5:07and she said that her flat was damaged
132. 5:10completely. she was it was destroyed and
133. 5:12she managed to run out of the flat just
134. 5:15before it was destroyed and um she
135. 5:18hasn't been there from 3:00 a.m. She has
136. 5:21been staying at her friend's place now
137. 5:23completely in shock and if we that's we
138. 5:25can see her flat what's left from her
139. 5:28flat and she says she can't go there now
140. 5:31because the rescuers are saying that
141. 5:33there are other explosives um around
142. 5:36which can detonate so people can't
143. 5:38approach really that site and she sent
144. 5:41me a message just saying that she's in
145. 5:43shock and obviously she couldn't expect
146. 5:46that happening although everyone is sort
147. 5:48of prepared that that can happen in KE
148. 5:51but how much can you prepare when you
149. 5:53have to carry on with your life there
150. 5:55and it's not only KEF which was targeted
151. 6:00well the recent numbers from Vitalic
152. 6:02Klitschko I just checked there 20 people
153. 6:05are killed in KE and uh at least 49
154. 6:09people have been injured but also other
155. 6:11cities were attacked Veneva little town
156. 6:13near KE and the Parisia obviously under
157. 6:15constant attacks
158. 6:16>> Olga thank you very much for that well
159. 6:18let's turn now to another major flash
160. 6:20point in the war, the situation in the
161. 6:22Russian occupied peninsula of Crimea. A
162. 6:25resident there has told the BBC the
163. 6:27situation is catastrophic as Ukrainian
164. 6:29drones strike oil refineries and power
165. 6:32plants as well as military targets. The
166. 6:34BBC's Sarah Reignsford explains why Kee
167. 6:36is striking now and why the peninsula
168. 6:38matters to Vladimir Putin.
169. 6:41>> Why is Ukraine now hitting Crimea so
170. 6:43hard and why does that matter to
171. 6:45Vladimir Putin? Crimea is the stolen
172. 6:48jewel in Putin's crown. Its annexation
173. 6:51in 2014 was illegal, but it made him
174. 6:54really popular back in Russia. Now,
175. 6:56officials on the peninsula have declared
176. 6:58a state of emergency because Ukrainian
177. 7:00drones are hitting oil refineries and
178. 7:03power plants. It is risky for people in
179. 7:05Crimea to speak openly. But Eigor did
180. 7:07agree to tell us what life is like
181. 7:09there.
182. 7:12>> The situation is catastrophic. We have
183. 7:14blackouts, water cuts, The beaches are
184. 7:17empty. People thought the war would be
185. 7:19far away in Ukraine, but now it's here.
186. 7:23>> Russia launches its missiles from
187. 7:25Crimea, and it supplies its troops in
188. 7:27southern Ukraine from Crimea. So, Kiev
189. 7:30is trying to hit military logistics to
190. 7:32force those troops to retreat. But why
191. 7:34now? Ukraine's defense minister told me
192. 7:37it's down to the tech. He said Ukrainian
193. 7:39drones are so much better now, and he
194. 7:41says it's having an impact. One sign we
195. 7:44can see is the long queue of cars for
196. 7:46the exit across the bridge that Putin
197. 7:49had built to Russia, the biggest symbol
198. 7:52of his takeover.