Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on Ukraine suffering its worst night of strikes in months

Ukraine has suffered its worst night of strikes in months. 

Nineteen people have been killed, including four children, and dozens are injured following a bombardment of missiles and drones in the capital of Kyiv.  

It marks Russia's deadliest onslaught on Kyiv since July.  

UK correspondent Vincent McAviney told Ryan Bridge the strikes hit residential areas and the offices of those representing the EU and UK.  

He says Britain is taking it as an attack on their presence there, and Ukraine's President Zelensky says this is evidence that Putin's not serious about negotiating a peace settlement.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Vincent Mecavin's a UK europe correspondent Vincent Ukraine suffered its
worst night of strikes in months. Nineteen people have been
killed in these strikes.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, that's right. Nineteen people, including four children killed, the
youngest of which just two years old. Dozens more injured
in this massive bombardment, which was missiles and drones. It
it hit several residential buildings in capital Yukiv and also
managed to hit the EU's officers and the British Council's offices.

(00:29):
That has meant that the Russian ambassador has been summoned
to the Foreign Office today for addressing down the EU
and Britain taking it as a sort of attack basically
on their presence there, and President Zelensky saying that all
of this is evidence that Putin's not serious about wanting
to go to the negotiating table for a peace settlement.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Have we heard anything from the Kremlin about whether this
was a mistake or whether they are playing with fire?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
So far, we haven't heard anything about that, whether it
was a target or in discriminate, But you really sort
of can't trust that they would say whether it was
the targeted.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Attack down to airby everyone's going on about this option auction,
I should say. There's props and costumes and paces from
all sorts of stuff, and there's going to be a
third release.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, that's right. So the third and final film comes
out in the next month of the much beloved TV show,
and because it is now the very end, they are
auctioning off the props from the last fifteen years. So
if you go on the website, it's everything from the
car the family drove to the wedding dress that Lady
Mary wore, things like the trays that the servants use,

(01:34):
pieces of furniture. It's all on there and the bidding
is on until the fifteenth of September. It's all for
a charity which supports those who have medical illnesses children.
It's called Together for Short Lives. The charity sports and
children with life limiting conditions and their families. So you
can go on to the website and just have the
brows there and a real sort of treasure trove of

(01:57):
early twentieth century furniture and clothing which is all used
in that show.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Vincent, Thank you. Vincent Mecavini, a UK europe correspondent for.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
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