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Weekend: Energy blackouts across Ukraine after Russian attacks

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Energy blackouts across Ukraine after Russian attacks

30/03/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Energy blackouts across Ukraine after Russian attacks

Regions of Ukraine are experiencing emergency blackouts after Russian missile strikes

Seven regions of Ukraine are experiencing emergency blackouts after a wave of  Russian missile strikes.

Also in the programme: The British Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell, on the civil war and famine in Sudan; and Annelle Sheline on why she resigned from the US State Department in protest against President Biden's support for Israel's war in Gaza.

Joining presenter Paul Henley are Michaela Wrong, a journalist and author, specialising in Africa; and Han Dorussen, professor of government at the University of Essex in southern England.

(Photo: Smoke rises in the sky over a high-voltage line at a site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, outside Kharkiv, Ukraine 22 March 2024. Credit: Reuters/Sofiia Gatilova)

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