BBC Breakfast’s Jon Kay was forced to move on from a report after one reporter had to find safety due to a missile attack in Kyiv.
Reporter Hugo Bachega was scheduled to be reporting live to the BBC studio in the UK but the Breakfast hosts were told that he’d had to find shelter.
Hosts Jon and Sally Nugent reassured viewers of the situation and told them that they will bring updates as soon as they can.
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Jon explained: “In other news this morning, we should have been talking to our correspondent Hugo Bachega in Kyiv now, but the team there has just had to move to safety because the city has once again been hit by a missile in the last few minutes.”
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Over footage of an attack, Nugent continued: “So, these pictures that we’re showing you now are actually from yesterday, when the city was struck by so-called kamikaze drones, unleashed by Russia but believed to be Iranian-made. The EU says it’s also gathering evidence on the Iranian drones and is ready to act.”
She told viewers that “Iran denies supplying them to Russia” and that they will “bring news from Hugo as soon as they can”.
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Hugo had been speaking to the show roughly an hour before the attack took place and explained that “Ukrainians say Iran has delivered hundreds of so-called kamikaze attack drones to Russia”.
Hugo continued on to say that they “explode on impact” which is why they were “given their name”.
Bachega then said that a “statement from the US” said that “Iran’s supply of the drones to Russia violates UN sanctions that ban Iranian transfers of certain military technology”.
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The Ukraine-based reporter also said: “We’re hearing Ukrainian officers call for sanctions to be imposed on Iran because of this support that is being provided by Russia. We saw yesterday the destruction that these drones can cause – a residential building here in the city centre was hit, four people were killed including a pregnant woman.”
The journalist said that a “black and white picture has been widely shared on social media” throughout Ukraine, which has led the woman to “become one of the faces of the tragedy here”.
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