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Russia pounds Kyiv with missiles and drones after Ukraine's strikes on oil infrastructure · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the news hour. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky today
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  Speaker 1: vowed a forceful response after an overnight barrage of Russian
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  Speaker 1: missiles and drones killed at least twenty five people in
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  Speaker 1: Kiev and wounded many more. Ukraine has also intensified its
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  Speaker 1: own campaign, launching waves of drones deep inside Russia and
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  Speaker 1: striking military sites and oil refineries. Those attacks have contributed
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  Speaker 1: to fuel shortages in parts of Russia. Yet despite the
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  Speaker 1: escalating strikes on both sides, the front lines have changed little.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly four and a half years into this war. Stephanie
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  Speaker 1: Say reports.
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  Speaker 2: In Kiev today, the aftermath of another night of Russian aggression.
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  Speaker 2: Workers dig through the charred husks of what were once homes,
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  Speaker 2: carrying out bodies. Elsewhere, rescue workers rushed to recover the living,
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  Speaker 2: pinned down in pain by the rubble. The latest devastation
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  Speaker 2: a lot even for the battle worn emergency workers gathered
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  Speaker 2: with forlorn faces. The flurry of Russian attacks that occurred
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  Speaker 2: overnight among the heaviest and deadliest on the capital since
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  Speaker 2: the war began, lighting up the early morning sky and
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  Speaker 2: carving craters outside apartment blocks.
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  Speaker 3: We ran inside and then heard the explosion.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to take cover, but everything is destroyed.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know what to say.
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  Speaker 3: People are still trapped under the rubble.
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian President Zelenski today visited the sites, urging an end
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  Speaker 2: to the war and calling out US negotiators.
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  Speaker 4: They have to call to see, to understand and to
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  Speaker 4: explain to president and then to answer in a wary,
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  Speaker 4: polite manner. How Steve Vitkov kan to Russia what they
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  Speaker 4: have to do quickly see if you say stop this war.
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  Speaker 2: The Kremlin spokesperson today was unmoved.
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  Speaker 3: Russia will continue to intensify pressure on the Kiev regime
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  Speaker 3: in order to achieve the goals it has set.
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  Speaker 2: The attacks in Kiev come a few days after Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: launched its own strikes on Russia. Russian citizens now subjected
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  Speaker 2: to the terror of drone warfare in their own territories.
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  Speaker 2: A Ukrainian drone Tuesday struck an apartment building outside Moscow,
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  Speaker 2: injuring four and killing a six month old baby. The
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  Speaker 2: awful consequence of a Ukrainian attempt to turn tables in
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  Speaker 2: the four year long war that's killed tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of Ukrainian civilians. Its long range drones have hit military
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  Speaker 2: installations and oil refineries across the nation. Ukraine has struck
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  Speaker 2: twenty four Russian oil refineries over the past month, and
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  Speaker 2: Russians are feeling the consequences. Lines for gas stretch for hours,
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  Speaker 2: with fifty five of Russia's eighty three federal districts reporting
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  Speaker 2: severe fuel shortages. The gas crunch is fueling calls for
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  Speaker 2: an end to the wars.
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  Speaker 4: N I don't know what I can do. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a politician, but I think the end of
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  Speaker 4: the war peace.
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  Speaker 2: This is the only way to stop this deficit from developing.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, to come to some kind of agreement somehow.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This has been going on for a while, after all.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the fuel shortage
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. You are well aware that problems
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  Speaker 2: persist for both drivers and businesses.
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  Speaker 4: Lines of gas stations unfortunately also remain.
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  Speaker 2: But Russia's mounting losses haven't just been economic. Analysts estimate
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  Speaker 2: there have been well over one million Russian military casualties,
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  Speaker 2: including hundreds of thousands of dead, and with military recruitment
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  Speaker 2: down twenty percent from this time last year, Russia, for
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  Speaker 2: the first time, is losing more soldiers than it can record,
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  Speaker 2: according to a February report by Bloomberg, so deadly are
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  Speaker 2: sections of the front line that pro Russian military bloggers
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  Speaker 2: have been circulating a shocking estimate. The average life expectancy
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  Speaker 2: of a soldier on the front line during an assault
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  Speaker 2: is twenty to thirty five minutes. One post reads, it
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  Speaker 2: is not possible to verify that with public data at
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  Speaker 2: the front. Over the past three months, Russia has lost
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  Speaker 2: one hundred square miles of territory to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesperson
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  Speaker 2: Peskov said Monday that Russia's demands remained the same national pizies.
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  Speaker 3: Our position is well known. In fact, our position has
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  Speaker 3: not changed.
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  Speaker 2: Russia wants Ukraine to seed four regions, cap its military
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  Speaker 2: and abandon its bid for NATO. The demands insult Ukraine's sovereignty,
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  Speaker 2: so the war grinds on. In its latest air assault,
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  Speaker 2: Russia launched nearly five hundred drones and seventy four missiles.
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  Speaker 2: The terror ki lasted eleven hours. Ukraine is pleading with
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  Speaker 2: allies for more air defenses to defend its capital and
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  Speaker 2: its people. For the PBS News Hour, I'm Stephanie Sai.
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