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World Service,14 Oct 2026,49 mins

Russia strikes energy facilities in Kyiv

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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. The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo has lung cancer. A lower lobe in his lungs was removed in an operation on Tuesday. In an update afterwards, the Vatican said the surgery had gone well and the Pope will be recovering from the surgery for a week or so. And we look at how news that Formula 1 is to return to Africa, for the first time since 1993, is being received on the continent. 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).

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