and a warning from the international monetary fund, it says a third of the world will be in recession this year. for most of the world economy this is going to be a tough year. tougher than the year we leave behind. hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine says russia attacked kyiv with waves of explosive drones overnight, targeting critical infrastructure. the military said air defence forces shot down all 39 iranian made drones. but the mayor of kyiv, vitaly klitschko, said energy facilities were damaged, disrupting power and heating supplies. our correspondent hugo bachega is in the ukrainian capital kyiv and has the latest. so the mayor said one person was wounded when debris fell from a drone intercepted by the country s air defence forces. now, it was the second night in a row when the air raid alert sounded here in care. people were told to go to shelters and obviously, they are angry, they are tired of these attacks. he has been frequently targeted in recent days. the m
status we have not only excluded and we have near 50% of damages in our electrical grid. the key problem here is the system is not able now to cover all the needs of our country that we are using, they are all in black out to save systems the same time to supply our people, to supply ukrainians with electricity evenif supply ukrainians with electricity even if it is like four hours. four hours of grid connection around the country. when we are talking about here which is extremely critical for electricity and moscow regime know very well about this and focus the last three days and that a bit more
first test. currently 234 2. and thatis first test. currently 234 2. and that is all your support for now. there will be more from me throughout the day. goodbye for now. goodbye for now. let s go live now to the ukrainian capital where we can speak to 0leksandr who is the director of the energy industry research centre. thank you forjoining us. give me an idea of how bad things are in terms of the impact these attacks are made on the energy infrastructure. it is really hundreds on the energy infrastructure. it 3 really hundreds of rockets and missiles and drains which already targeted our critical infrastructure. a generation capacity in the sector. as well, some heating stations which are critically important in winter times and it looks like the focus against ukrainians, nothing else from moscow. and for our current
seven regions in ukraine. and six railway stations have been hit by russian rockets. they are hunting as you say, they re hunting after weapons that is coming from the west. and i have to say that despite those attacks, yes, our infrastructure has been severely damaged, but we also have a capability, a capacity to mandate, to repair it pretty quickly. they cannot destroy those routes. the weapon is coming. and it feels like russians really recognize that the west embrace the idea that ukraine actually can win this war. and started to supply ukrainians with all the needed heavy weapon and i think they start panic, and that s why they increase escalated its attacks on the supply routes of the weapon, close it to the front.
type of thing. it s going to be intense, brutal with high rates of expenditure of ammunition. it s going to be a challenge in t turn for u.s. nato to supply ukrainians in this battle. they clearly need those supplies quickly. what will it mean for putin, both streategically and for its own propaganda, if russia takes the key port city of mariupol? as others have observed, this is crucial because it s a key city location. what s left of it. for establishing a land bridge for what i think is and most people think is the ultimate prize here, which is odesa. so and this could perhaps could be the claimed victory that putin needs for his may 9th