European allies' outrage at Russia's attack on Sumy

欧洲盟友对俄罗斯对苏梅的袭击表示愤慨

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2025-04-14

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Ukraine's European allies express outrage at Russia's missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy which left 34 civilians dead. We hear from two of the survivors - a mother and her 13-year-old son. Also in the programme: Sudan's civil war forces another mass displacement of people; Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez remembers his Peruvian friend Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America’s literary greats; and the story of skill and resilience that led Rory McIlroy to sporting immortality. (IMAGE: Ukrainian rescuers at the site of a rocket strike in downtown Sumy, Ukraine, which killed at least 32 people including two children, and injured 84 people including 10 children,13 April 2025 / CREDIT: Photo by UKRAINE STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour.

  • It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.

  • I'm Tim Franks.

  • We've got a remarkable couple of voices to bring you.

  • Two voices which are a repost to the sort of language that's become a bit of a cliché when we talk about the war in Ukraine,

  • the stuff about it grinding on, about a war of attrition, about front lines only slowly changing.

  • Because what happened on Sunday morning in Sumi, in the northeast of Ukraine, smashed through that tired imagery.

  • As families headed to church or to a show at a theatre or just went for a stroll on a sunny spring day,

  • two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the centre of the city.

  • At least 34 people were killed, more than 100 were injured, including many women and children.

  • The two people you'll hear from in a moment were caught in the chaos and the terror.

  • Before them,

  • we'll hear from our reporter at the scene and also this from President Vladimir Zelensky saying Donald Trump should visit Ukraine and see for himself the destruction and death Russia is wreaking.

  • We want you to come and I think to come and to see.

  • You think you understand what's going on here?

  • Okay, we respect your position, you understand.

  • But please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of formats of negotiations come to see people,

  • civilians, warriors, hospitals, charges, children, destroyed or dead.

  • Come, look and then let's let's move with the plan how to finish the war.

  • Vladimir Zelensky appealing directly to Donald Trump on the US television network CBS.