Summary
What is it like in the classroom during wartime?
Two Ukrainian teachers, Lesia Yurchyshyn in Kyiv and Olga Hrihoryeva in Kherson, discuss their differing experiences of what teaching has been like since the war began, from remote learning to bomb shelter classrooms.
New York Times correspondent Valerie Hopkins joins us from St Petersburg where she’s searching cemetery-by-cemetery to find the location of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s funeral.
And the BBC’s Olga Ivshina joins Russia analyst Mark Galeotti to examine how the Wagner chief’s death is going down in Russia.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Clare Williamson, Ivana Davidovic and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Philip Bull. 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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TOPICS:
00:05 - Pro-Kremlin TV 01:48 - Prigozhin Russia reaction 05:53 - Prigozhin funeral 13:12 - Back to school in Ukraine
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 552 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.7 | And in Russia, the circumstances surrounding the plane crash |
| 0:13.3 | and presumed death of the Ukrainian Revolution |
| 0:15.4 | have been the subject of discussion, |
| 0:17.4 | as you would imagine, on pro-Cremlin TV channels. |
| 0:20.8 | It wasn't possible to use it for too long, |
| 0:23.5 | but it was possible. |
| 0:26.6 | This is Ihor Markov, who's a former pro-Russian MP from Ukraine, |
| 0:32.6 | who's now in Russia, obviously. |
| 0:34.6 | And he says it was the United Kingdom that killed Yvgenya Pragodion |
| 0:40.6 | by downing his plane. |
| 0:42.6 | I have to say, this kind of discussion is unusual in Russian TV. |
| 0:47.6 | It's been mainly broadcasting really short reports saying |
| 0:51.6 | Yvgenya Pragodion's plane crashed. |
| 0:53.6 | He's there, move on, nothing to see here. |
| 0:56.6 | Whereas this was a kind of, might look like a talk show |
| 0:59.6 | or a discussion show with three or four contributors, |
| 1:02.6 | or all men, standing behind podiums |
| 1:05.6 | and discussing the downing of the plane, |
| 1:07.6 | and they talked about the cynicism of the UK |
| 1:10.6 | and that this was terrorism. |
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