Supply for scots. david, many thanks. our top story this lunchtime. i wave of russian attacks hit ukraine. the target is kyiv, for the first time in several months. and king charles sends his condolences to those who lost loved ones in the irish village of creeslough, after an exposion left ten people dead. coming up on the bbc news channel, brighton midfielder enock mwepu says some dreams come to an end after retiring due to a hereditary heart condition. the club say it puts him at a higher risk of a fatal cardiac arrest if he d continued playing. many councils are planning to create warm spaces this winter to help people keep warm as the cost of the energy increases, according to research carried out by the bbc. so called warm hubs are free, and many will be in public buildings which are already being heated such
Russia s president is promising more to come. translation: if attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on our- territory continue, russia s response will be severe and in scale will correspond with the level of threats to the russian federation. no one should have any doubts about this. today s missile strikes right across the country are a strategic escalation. they are aimed primarily at punishing ukraine for what president putin calls a terrorist attack. he is referring to saturday s explosion on the kerch bridge, linking russia to illegally occupied crimea. that triggered outrage in moscow from hardliners, who want to see putin escalate this war. there has been mounting criticism there of russian defence minister, sergei shoigu, for the poor performance of the russian army. ukraine s forces are pushing the russians back on several fronts. they are better equipped, better led
Southern city of zaporizhzhia, another hellish night. vladimir putin may have escalated today but in zaporizhzhia, this has been going on relentlessly for a week. and far to the west in lviv, more missiles, cutting off water and electricity. it has been a long time since so many cities were hit at the same time from moscow apparently determined to make the biggest possible statement. down in kyiv s metro, a population rallying in defiance. singing. people lived down here for weeks when the war began. two days ago, ukraine was celebrating the destruction of russia s bridge to the crimea. today, that euphoria is gone. fear once again stalking the capital. pauladams, bbc news, kyiv. let s go to kyiv and our
And better motivated than the russians. but they are heavily dependent on western weapons. president putin wants to scare the west into stopping that supply line. the sort of action we ve seen today with these missiles which are much more for psychological than practical effect, is a way of putin trying to reassert the initiative and encourage his supporters and indeed those people who are against him, that they can still win this war. and this is not going to happen. ukraine on the current path will eventually win this war. but for now, there is still a lot more damage russia can inflict on ukraine s population, hitting homes and energy supplies to make them suffer for resisting its invasion. frank gardner, bbc news. live to our russia editor steve rosenburg in moscow. we heard in that report how president putin is under pressure
Today at one. a wave of russian attacks hits cities across ukraine. russia is said to have launched more than 80 missiles, targeting the capital kyiv for the first time in months. our correspondent in kyiv was reporting live this morning when one of the missiles struck close by. so. explosion. ukraine s president zelensky says russia is trying to wipe his country off the face of the earth.