On Kharkivs Frontline

Published: March 19, 2022, noon

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Ukraine saw further indiscriminate attacks across the country this week, including an attack on a theatre sheltering civilians in Mariupol. The city of Kharkiv, like Mariupol, has been under constant attack; bodies line the streets as its often too dangerous to bury them. Quentin Sommerville reflects on the horror unfolding on the ground.\\nThe tactics the Russians are using in Ukraine are familiar to countries not just in the former Soviet domain \\u2013 but also Syria. Vladimir Putin\\u2019s military support for President Assad in the country\\u2019s civil war helped raise cities to the ground. Leila Molana-Allen spoke to some of the people who have lived through that war\\nWestern intelligence sources have expressed concerns about Russian activity in Moldova, which neighbours Ukraine. Moldova is also a former Soviet state, with a Russian-speaking separatist insurgency in the east. Newsnight\\u2019s Sima Kotecha spoke to Moldova\\u2019s Prime Minister about her fears for what may lie ahead and how the country is struggling to cope with the influx of refugees.\\nIn rural Kenya, most of the population live and work on the farms that are the backbone of the country\\u2019s economy. But access to electricity is sparse. So in one village, a young entrepreneur decided to give himself a crash course in engineering, so he could supply power to the residents in his village. Mercy Juma went to Kenyanjeru.\\nLast year, Chile elected a radical left wing, ex-student leader who won a landslide victory. The new President, Gabriel Boric, keen to diverge from the style of his predecessors, has embarked on a property hunt in a working-class district in downtown Santiago. Jane Chambers went to explore his new neighbourhood.

Presenter: Kate Adie\\nProducer: Serena Tarling and Polly Hope\\nEditor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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