2022: The year war engulfed Ukraine
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Ukrainecast team looks back at 2022 and assesses what 2023 might bring. The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, security correspondent Frank Gardner, Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse and Olga Ivshina from the BBC Russian Service reflect on the invasion, nuclear threats, war crimes investigations and the situation in Russia. We also look ahead to 2023 to discuss how long the war could continue, what it would take for Russia and Ukraine to negotiate and the role other countries are playing. This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Ivana Davidovic. Alison Gee is the assistant editor. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 0330 1239480.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 310 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.2 | On February 24th, the people of the Capitol Keeve woke up to what many had thought was |
| 0:15.7 | unthinkable. |
| 0:17.1 | Russia was attacking their city. |
| 0:21.6 | The Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a major military operation against Ukraine. |
| 0:27.1 | Speaking on that. |
| 0:29.5 | We will strive for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. |
| 0:33.9 | The invasion, the attack that Russia promised would never happen, has now started. |
| 0:47.7 | Ukraine cast and you, our listeners, have been bearing witness to this war across Ukraine |
| 0:53.7 | ever since, and will continue to do so |
| 0:57.5 | for as long as it takes. |
| 1:00.3 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:03.1 | Ukraine cast from this news. |
| 1:06.5 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defense to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:15.9 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:20.5 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:22.5 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:28.5 | Hello, I'm Lise DuSet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent at home in very cold |
| 1:34.5 | Canada, in the country of the second largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world. |
| 1:39.5 | This is Olga Ivshina, BBC Russian reporter in the Ukraine cast studio. |
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