BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine war babies and returning home

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It is two years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war has claimed tens of thousands of lives, left millions of Ukrainians as refugees, and wrought much destruction. When your home is invaded and everything is shattered and turned upside down, what happens to your life? Host James Reynolds hears from three women in Ukraine who, despite the dangers of war, chose to have a baby. At the start of the war, millions of women and children escaped to safety abroad. With the passing of time, some have decided to return. Three of those women come together to discuss their decisions to go back home.

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0:00.0	We lost our humanity. We lost our dignity. We got punished for something we did not do.
0:07.0	Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service tells the story of the Black 14.
0:12.0	Our young lives were flipped upside down. Search for amazing sports
0:15.8	stories wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Hello I'm James Reynolds.
0:19.7	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:23.6	In BBC OS conversations we bring people together to share their experiences.
0:28.1	This time it's Ukrainians who decided to accept their future amid the continued fighting.
0:35.0	It has been two years since the beginning of Russia's invasion.
0:40.0	There's been so much pain, so much destruction along the way.
0:44.9	In this edition we hear from Ukrainians, mothers who chose to bring new life into a war zone.
0:50.7	And from the women who escaped Ukraine at the beginning but ultimately decided
0:54.4	that home is more important than anything else. They went back.
0:58.0	It felt like I never left it. I felt stronger, I felt happier. I didn't feel lonely anymore so it was good.
1:08.8	We'll hear more from that conversation a little later on the war has so far claimed an extraordinarily large
1:14.8	number of lives. It's also made refugees of many millions. For those who remain in
1:19.8	Ukraine, you can imagine that just getting by would be the priority, but there are those planning
1:25.0	to have families and having those families.
1:28.4	We brought together three women who've all had babies during the war.
1:31.8	They are Angelina Karyakina. She's based in the Kyiv region and has a son
1:35.4	Meron who's about to turn one. Tatiana's Jelchenko from Harquiv has a five-year-old daughter and gave
1:41.7	birth to her son Igor 10 months ago.
1:45.3	And Halia Rudic lives in a small village outside Kyiv.
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