Anastasia’s Story
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Many Ukrainians are celebrating the liberation of towns in the south and east of the country from Russian occupation. But these are bittersweet days - the liberation came too late for some. Anastasia from Balakliya shares the devastating story of what happened to her mother and her friends.
Also, Vitaly, Victoria and the BBC’s Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse talk to Jakub Jakóbowski, an expert on China, about the upcoming meeting between Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping. Are they allies of convenience? And which country is calling the shots?
The producers are Clare Williamson, Ivana Davidovic and Arsenii Sokolov. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The planning producer is Louise Hidalgo. The technical producer is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Alison Gee. 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, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 203 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.4 | And in just a moment, in this episode of Ukraine cast, |
| 0:13.2 | we're going to bring you a very poignant and very powerful story. |
| 0:18.0 | From a 30-year-old Ukrainian mom, who used to live in one of the liberated towns |
| 0:24.3 | that we are going to talk more about, a place called Balakalea. |
| 0:28.8 | Her mother was taken to hospital, unconscious, and she never regained consciousness, |
| 0:42.5 | and she died on the 17th of March. |
| 0:47.1 | Her name was Elena, she was 49, she would have turned 50 on the 19th of September. |
| 0:56.7 | She was a very beautiful woman. |
| 0:58.2 | She was the best mother and grandmother. |
| 1:04.2 | This is Ukraine cast, with Anastasiya's story. |
| 1:08.2 | Ukraine cast, from this age. |
| 1:11.2 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:21.2 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:27.2 | Is the aggression? |
| 1:28.2 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:33.2 | Hello, this is Victoria in the Ukraine cast studio. |
| 1:36.2 | This is Vitaly in the Ukraine cast studio in Broadcasting House in London. |
| 1:40.2 | And this is James Walter House, the BBC's Ukraine correspondent |
| 1:43.2 | on what I like to call the BBC balcony in Kiev. |
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