{"text":[[{"start":8.24,"text":"Russia unleashed a barrage of missiles on Kyiv overnight, shortly after US President Donald Trump’s envoy and Vladimir Putin failed to deliver a meaningful breakthrough on ending the war in Ukraine."}],[{"start":20.76,"text":"More than 20 ballistic missiles targeted the capital, with a string of explosions sending residents rushing to shelters late on Wednesday and through the night."}],[{"start":30.36,"text":"At least one person died and another 22 were injured, Ukraine’s emergency service said on Thursday."}],[{"start":37.2,"text":"Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack damaged an ambulance station as well as metro infrastructure near the city’s South Bridge, a major thoroughfare over the Dnipro River. Authorities recorded damage across six districts, with local media reporting that a shopping centre had been destroyed."}],[{"start":54.86,"text":"The strikes followed a renewed US diplomatic push, with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff meeting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several European leaders in Oslo this week. Witkoff then headed to St Petersburg for talks on Wednesday with Putin, whom the envoy hailed as a “humanitarian”."}],[{"start":72.16,"text":"“Overnight, Kyiv residents heard what Russian ‘humanism’ truly sounds like,” Ukraine’s foreign minister Andriy Sybiha wrote on X."}],[{"start":79.2,"text":"“Appeasement, servility and flattery will not stop this war. Only strength will.”"}],[{"start":84.92,"text":"Zelenskyy told journalists late on Wednesday that Kyiv had “received feedback” that Ukraine, Russia and the US had agreed to revive trilateral talks, which were put on ice at the onset of the war in Iran earlier this year."}],[{"start":98.08,"text":"Zelenskyy said they hoped the negotiating teams would meet in early November, though no date has been confirmed."}],[{"start":104.44,"text":"The talks this week failed to deliver concrete progress, even as Kyiv pushed for an energy ceasefire to stop Russia from pummelling Ukrainian power plants and energy infrastructure ahead of winter. Trump has repeatedly demanded that Ukraine cease its own strikes targeting Russian refineries and oil terminals."}],[{"start":126.57,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1792657140_1708.mp3"}