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Weekend: Ukraine's energy infrastructure attacked

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Ukraine's energy infrastructure attacked

30/03/2024 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Ukraine's energy infrastructure attacked

Seven regions of Ukraine experiencing emergency blackouts

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

Also in the programme: A former US ambassador to Israel says that the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's behaviour this week had been confounding - and insulting - to the American president; and the British actor Greg Wise on why he feels we should be more open about death.

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: A Ukrainian firefighter works to extinguish a fire at the site of a rocket attack on an industrial building in the Kholodnohirskyi district of Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, 20 March 2024, amid the Russian invasion. Credit: EPA/George Ivanchenko)

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