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00:00Absolutely. And it's everything but rare. We've had explosions a lot since the summer here in
00:05Kyiv. And last night was no exception. And the early hours of the morning, rather, there was
00:10an air raid alert in the early hours. In total, Russia launched 111 drones at Ukraine, not just
00:17at the capital, but also across the country, out of which 60, around 60 were intercepted by air
00:24defense. And over 40 just crashed away from their target, apparently. But here in the capital,
00:32they killed those drones, kamikaze drones, killed at least two people. Six people got injured,
00:38including a pregnant woman. So we see those attacks continuing and also corroborating
00:44what Volodymyr Zelensky said in its address that Russia shows no sign of wanting to stop this war,
00:51at least when it comes to attacking civilians. Those attacks continue on top of the attacks
00:57that target the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. Now, in the meantime, Ukraine is blocking Russian
01:03gas imports through its territory after the transit agreement between Moscow and Kyiv
01:07expired. Tell us a bit more about that and about reaction from other European
01:10countries who are getting very worried. Well, they might be worried, but Ukraine
01:18has been letting Russian gas transiting through its country despite the ongoing Russian aggression
01:25against Kyiv. So it made no sense from Kyiv's perspective to renew this agreement, because the
01:30money that Russia is making exporting its gas towards Europe actually funds the war. And it
01:36actually funds the missiles, the drones that are crashing against Ukrainian civilian infrastructures
01:42that are killing civilians. And it's funding the war on the front line as well. That being said,
01:47indeed, there are worries in other European capitals. I'm thinking about Slovakia, Hungary,
01:54Austria, Italy, because all those countries still heavily depend on Russian gas. Russian gas can
02:00transit through other pipelines that are not transiting through Ukraine. However, Prime
02:06Minister Robert Frist in Slovakia threatened to, as retaliation, cut out the energy transit
02:13towards Ukraine. Ukraine, which needs European energy because of Russian strikes on its energy
02:20infrastructure. But here again, Kyiv stands firm and say that, well, this energy transiting through
02:27Slovakia, that's about 20 percent of the European energy coming here. Well, if, first off, Kyiv is
02:35paying for it, this is not charity. Second, the Minister of Energy, Herman Harushenko, said that
02:42if it is cut out through Slovakia, well, Kyiv will look at other ways, such as
02:49transit through Poland or through Romania. So Kyiv is standing firm in its energy policy there.