Arsenii and Yulia's story: Life after Azovstal
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A husband and wife’s tale of imprisonment, torture and their campaign to free POWs.
Arsenii Fedosiuk, a lieutenant in Ukraine’s Azov Brigade, was one of the soldiers who fought defending the Azovstal steel works and was imprisoned, tortured and subsequently released by the Russians.
He’s in London with his wife, Yulia, as part of a campaign to put pressure on the Russian authorities to return their Prisoners of War, and came into the Ukrainecast studio.
Today’s episode is presented by Jamie Coomarasamy and Irena Taranyuk. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Nick Holland. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. 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. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 821 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.2 | And today on Ukraine-cast, we're talking to Asseini and Yulia. |
| 0:14.0 | The quality of nutrition and the water was so poor and the mount of nutrition was so poor |
| 0:19.4 | so a lot of people got their teeth just crushed. |
| 0:23.0 | When I saw him for the first time, I didn't recognize him. |
| 0:27.0 | He looked like a skeleton. |
| 0:30.0 | Arseni and Julia Fadusiuk, a young Ukrainian couple. He is a Azov battalion or now brigade fighter who was fighting in Mariopul in Azov's still works. He was imprisoned by Russians. He was in |
| 0:47.0 | in Olanyevka in 2022. He was released as a part of POW Exchange at the end of that year and his wife Yulia could barely recognize him. |
| 0:59.0 | In the meantime she started a campaign to free the remaining 900 Azov-style prisoners of war still in Russian captivity. |
| 1:10.0 | And O'Lenivka was a prison where they were initially held, |
| 1:14.1 | Arseni and his colleagues, and it's where there was an explosion |
| 1:19.2 | in which about 60 of them were actually killed. |
| 1:21.7 | It was one of the incidents as you will hear that has really |
| 1:26.4 | imprinted itself on both of their minds as an incredibly important one during this war and we it's one of the many upsetting |
| 1:35.2 | scenes that you're going to be hearing and we'll hear a lot about how they've reacted |
| 1:39.0 | to them. This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:41.0 | Ukraine cast from business? |
| 1:44.0 | Evil cannot be trusted. |
| 1:46.0 | Ask pre-Gosin. |
| 1:48.0 | You are not dealing with a politician, but with a bloody monster. |
| 1:52.0 | Is there a need for a serious opponent? |
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