2025-04-24
33 分钟BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts.
It is 1,156 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
And Vitaly, as we record at lunchtime here in the UK on Thursday,
Ukraine is reeling from multiple Russian attacks, including a deadly one on the capital.
Yes, it was one of the most difficult and impudent...
That's according to Volodymyr Zelensky on Ukraine.
It involved 70 missiles, ballistic crews, glide bombs, 145 drones.
The main target was the capital, Kiev, where at least eight people have died,
more than 70 injured, about a dozen buildings flattened or damaged.
And this is the latest attack in a pattern of Russian strikes against Ukrainian population centres,
resulting in high numbers of civilian casualties.
Well, we are observing this.
from afar but let's bring in now someone who has experienced it at first hand a friend of the podcast Vitaly another Vitaly Pashenko Vitaly nice to meet you I am an occasional Ukraine caster but I regularly listen and so I've heard you a lot it's very nice to meet you personally down the line but clearly it's been a very tough night for you indeed and the experience through which we had to go was very traumatic.
The air raid alert began sometime after the midnight and the explosions happened very,
very close to the place where I live, the dormitory in Shevchenkivsky District of Kiev.
And when I heard the first explosions,
I understood that it's now a good time to actually run to the shelter.
And as I live on the ninth floor of the building, I had to run very, very fast.
And I saw people.
running out of their rooms in their pyjamas, their nightgowns,