Russia strikes energy facilities in Kyiv

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky says a Russian ballistic missile attack has hit an energy facility and a residential building in the capital, Kyiv. Two people are reported to have been killed, and twenty-one injured in the attack. Mr Zelensky pointed out that for the second night in a row there was no advance warning from Ukraine's allies. We get a view from Ukraine's European allies.

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Presenters: James Copnall and Anne Soy.

(Photo: Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA).