Summary
Europe’s biggest nuclear powerplant is hit by shelling, but a nuclear disaster is avoided. We hear from BBC Monitoring’s Vitaly Shevchenko, whose mother’s balcony in Zaporizhzhia looks out on the facility.
Meanwhile in Kyiv, after a difficult night of air strikes, Max sends us a voice memo about his plans to leave the capital with his family.
Also, Victoria speaks to Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, who is reminded of the destruction she saw in Allepo. And BBC international correspondent Andrew Harding describes how he saw similar tactics being used by Russian military while covering the Chechen wars.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn and Natalie Ktena. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's nine days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, and I want to let you know |
| 0:10.2 | that some of the descriptions and conversations in this episode are upsetting. |
| 0:15.8 | On Twitter, Ukrainian politician Inosovson posted really very distressing footage of what |
| 0:21.4 | is happening in the city of Cheneyhev in the north close to the border with Belarus. |
| 0:28.4 | That's great because of all the smoke, and you can just about see the devastation of |
| 0:32.3 | buildings that have been hit by shells or missiles. |
| 0:36.2 | There are bricks and glass and rubble and fires everywhere. |
| 0:42.5 | And there is a woman who is screaming. |
| 0:50.0 | And there are people lying on the ground with limbs missing. |
| 0:56.0 | And the questions to the military alliance of NATO are ever louder from some people within |
| 1:01.9 | Ukraine. |
| 1:02.9 | Are you going to simply let this happen? |
| 1:07.5 | This is Ukraine cast from the BBC. |
| 1:10.9 | Ukraine cast from the BBC. |
| 1:14.0 | There is no purgatory for war criminals. |
| 1:16.4 | They go straight to hell. |
| 1:17.8 | I'm ordering the Minister of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:23.6 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:30.6 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:35.6 | Hello, it's Victoria at home in London. |
| 1:38.6 | I'm Vitaly Shepchenko in a BBC studio in Solford. |
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