Summary
The UN Human Rights Office has today described the war in Ukraine as a ‘horror story of violations against civilians’, in which respect for international law has been ‘tossed aside’. Matilda Bogner, who runs the UN's Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, tells us about the war crimes they've documented.
We're also joined by the Marianna Spring, the BBC's disinformation reporter, who tells us the real story of the Ukrainian soldier who became famous when a clip of him defying orders from a Russian warship to surrender, and swearing at them, went viral.
And a daughter tells us how she undertook an extraordinary journey into the besieged city of Mariupol to rescue her parents.
Today's Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Osman Iqbal and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Cassie Galpin. The Editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | It's day 58 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:08.3 | Today we have heard from a UN monitoring mission |
| 0:12.3 | actually on the ground in Ukraine, |
| 0:15.2 | who are traveling across the country. |
| 0:17.0 | And they say they are finding evidence of alleged war crimes, |
| 0:23.0 | lots of evidence of alleged war crimes. |
| 0:25.3 | Almost everybody had stories to tell us |
| 0:28.3 | where they had physically witnessed themselves, |
| 0:31.4 | killings, including summary executions, |
| 0:34.3 | where they had helped to bury their neighbors, |
| 0:37.0 | their friends, or unknown people |
| 0:39.6 | who had been killed in front of their houses. |
| 0:42.9 | The stories that we heard were really horrifying. |
| 0:45.8 | And this one is really worth listening to. |
| 0:48.1 | I've heard a lot of UN people over the years |
| 0:51.0 | and sometimes unfortunately, |
| 0:53.4 | there can be a tendency to pull their punches |
| 0:56.0 | in situations like this, |
| 0:57.6 | but not this woman. |
| 0:59.2 | This is Ukraine's cast. |
| 1:08.8 | Ukraine costs from this news. |
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