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World Service,22 Aug 2026,54 mins

Russian drone strike kills 16, wounds hundreds

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The number of those killed by a Russian drone attack on a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has risen to sixteen. Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg gauges the mood in Moscow. Also in today's programme: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is growing exponentially, with more than two-thousand-five-hundred deaths recorded; and, the second world humanoid robot games are taking place in Beijing for the next few days at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing. Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by a US born journalist Linda Rodriguez McRobbie and Ben Bland, director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at the Chatham House international relations thinktank here in London. Photo: Aftermath of a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv region 21 August . Credit: State Emergency Service Of Ukraine/ Reuters

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