A mother’s plea to get her teenage son back
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Ukrainian school boy was beaten, detained and threatened.
Victoria and Vitaly hear from the mother of a Ukrainian school boy, beaten up and detained by Russian soldiers; and how she’s now trying to get him out the occupied area.
The BBC’s International Editor Jeremy Bowen brings us the latest on the Kherson offensive; and James, who has stayed in Kherson throughout the occupation, tells us about life in the besieged city and why he feels brave enough to speak out.
Today’s episode was produced by Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical director was Michael Regaard. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The assistant editor is Sam Bonham. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 254 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.8 | And as the war goes on, there are more and more horrifying stories. |
| 0:16.8 | And to the mums and dads who listen to us around the world, |
| 0:19.6 | we're going to bring you the story today of a teenage boy |
| 0:23.3 | who has been essentially abducted and beaten up |
| 0:28.1 | by Russian forces in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine. |
| 0:32.9 | And we have been talking to his mum who is at her absolute wit's end |
| 0:37.5 | because she wants to rescue him. |
| 0:47.6 | The Russians broke into his house at night. |
| 0:50.7 | They put a sack over his head, put him in a truck, |
| 0:54.2 | and took him to a field. |
| 0:56.2 | Where they fired shorts and threatened him and said things like, |
| 1:00.1 | say, goodbye to your life now. |
| 1:02.9 | Also, a couple of really stark figures have been |
| 1:08.5 | published about the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:11.9 | Four and a half million people were without electricity last night |
| 1:17.9 | in Ukraine following Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy grid. |
| 1:22.4 | That's according to President Zelensky. |
| 1:24.8 | Fourteen million people. |
| 1:27.1 | That's the number of people Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven from their homes. |
| 1:31.2 | And that's according to the latest UN estimates. |
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