Summary
The BBC’s Fergal Keane presents today’s episode of Ukrainecast from Lviv in western Ukraine – thousands of refugees are flowing through the city as they try to leave the country.
He’s joined by the BBC's Abdujalil Abdurasulov, who’s in Kyiv as Russian forces continue to slowly advance, and Kevin Connolly, former Moscow BBC correspondent. They discuss Russia’s strategy to take Kyiv and who Putin’s allies are.
The Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who’s living in exile, also explains why she feels her country’s future is so closely connected to the fate of Ukraine.
Today’s Newscast was made by Alison Gee with Alix Pickles. The studio directors were Sharmini Ashton-Griffiths and Wayne Moses. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, I'm Fergal Keane, and I'm standing in for Victoria and Gabriel for today's |
| 0:09.5 | episode of Ukraine Cast. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm in Laviv, which has become the great hub for refugees trying to flee the conflict |
| 0:17.5 | in Ukraine. |
| 0:18.5 | I've watched hundreds of thousands of people come through here day and night, heading |
| 0:23.3 | west to the European Union, hoping that they will be able to get back here soon, but |
| 0:28.4 | nobody's certain of that. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Ukraine Cast. |
| 0:32.6 | Ukraine Cast, from BBC News. |
| 0:36.2 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 0:45.4 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 0:50.2 | Bruno is the aggression. |
| 0:52.2 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 0:57.3 | Hello, I'm Fergal Keane, bringing you today's episode of Ukraine Cast, from Laviv, in |
| 1:02.2 | the west of Ukraine. |
| 1:03.5 | We're also welcoming back Kevin Connelly, former Moscow correspondent. |
| 1:08.5 | Kevin's also been a correspondent in Belfast, Paris, Warsaw, Washington, Jerusalem, Brussels, |
| 1:15.2 | and Dublin. |
| 1:16.2 | A well-traveled man. |
| 1:17.2 | Hello, Fergal. |
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