Today Programme: Russia's latest attack on Kyiv
28 August 2025
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What we've seen overnight is an indication that the Russians are still prepared to use force to achieve their objectives and are not yet interested in a cessation of hostilities, although a lot of this particularly attacking infrastructure targets is intended to put pressure on the Ukrainian government. And we also saw them get a foothold in the Dnipropetrovsk region. It does actually seem that rather than the prospect of peace, or a ceasefire, or some kind of deal, meaning things are easing up, it's having the opposite effect, where they're pressing for maximum advantage before you start drawing the lines on the map."