Assignment: Ukraine - fighting for openness
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers defend their country against Russia, many patriotic civilians are engaged in a struggle that's less risky, but that they believe is also vital. They’re battling for a fairer, less corrupt Ukraine, worthy of its heroes. For Assignment, Tim Whewell follows one tireless citizens’ group in the city of Dnipro as they continue, even in wartime, to hold local authorities to account. They've been investigating a contract to repair housing damaged in a Russian attack. And they claim there's been corrupt profiteering. But Dnipro's powerful mayor dismisses the allegations - and deliberately insults those who question his priorities. What's the role of civil society when rockets are falling? And can Ukraine - one of the world's more corrupt countries - pursue reform while the war continues?
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| 0:00.0 | Something mysterious plagues county mayo's Gaelic football team on the west coast of Ireland. |
| 0:06.0 | When you look at the amount of times they've reached the final, you almost start believing something's not right. |
| 0:10.0 | Believing in the curse. |
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| 0:16.0 | So we're going through the bedroom. |
| 0:19.0 | This is basically, we're going out to the river side of the block of flats. So this is the balcony. You can hear the traffic down there on the embankment. |
| 0:28.0 | So I'm just going to look round from Vardas flat. |
| 0:41.4 | Oh my God. Whoa. So this really is the last her flat basically survived just with broken windows and the next flat closer to where |
| 0:49.8 | the rocket fell, it's total destruction, the whole side of the flat, blown in, |
| 0:58.0 | piles of rubble and rubbish even now, |
| 1:02.0 | and this is now nearly a year on and then beyond that simply nothing |
| 1:08.0 | just a complete gap where the next two entrances to the block of flats were there's nothing there at all. |
| 1:15.0 | And opposite actually, the bus shelter that's opposite along the bank of the river, |
| 1:19.0 | still piled with flowers in tribute to the 46 people that were killed here when the missile fell. |
| 1:27.0 | It's just really upsetting to see this. |
| 1:30.0 | Children should have real to really do it. the missile attack last January |
| 1:35.0 | attack last January and the massive Soviet-era building |
| 1:40.0 | where Vada Samarina lives was the worst Russian attack yet on to Nipro in Central Ukraine, its fourth largest city. |
| 1:47.6 | The rocket fell at about 2.30 in the afternoon. |
| 1:51.0 | All the windows blew in. |
| 1:53.0 | Frada wasn't hurt but her daughter Nastia had her forehead cut open by flying grass. |
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