Beyond the bullets: we go to Ukraine
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The Economist
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We take a look at the grim conditions in and prospects for the frontlines in the country’s east and north. But not all of the fighting is military in nature. We examine a far wider cultural revival going on (10:59), in music and fashion and long-forgotten ingredients and methods of Ukrainian cuisine (19:13). “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” sung by Andriy Khlyvnyuk
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | It's been two and a half years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we've been reporting |
| 0:45.0 | on the war since its first hours. By now, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, |
| 0:51.4 | millions more displaced. And today for the first time a special |
| 0:57.0 | episode hosted from Ukraine's capital, Kieve. I'll be guided by some of my |
| 1:02.1 | colleagues who are more familiar with this war, with this country. |
| 1:05.5 | We'll hear about the latest from the front lines, but we wanted also to give you another perspective, |
| 1:11.4 | a fresh one even, about how civilians are responding. |
| 1:16.0 | Because there's another battle being fought by every citizen to reclaim Ukrainian culture |
| 1:20.9 | and identity that's endured centuries of oppression. |
| 1:24.0 | And I'll be lucky enough to get a crash course in Ukrainian cuisine |
| 1:28.0 | from one of the country's top chefs. |
| 1:30.0 | This is my first time in Ukraine and it's a lot. On the surface, life in Kyiv is seemingly kind of normal. |
| 1:40.0 | Just below the surface, the collective trauma, the conversations, the rhythms of life, it's not normal. |
| 1:47.0 | Russia continues to target energy infrastructure, so electricity comes and goes all the time. |
| 1:52.0 | The sound of generators, small and big and really big, |
| 1:56.9 | is part of the white noise of life. And most nights there are air raid sirens. |
| 2:09.0 | Explosions as the city's air defenses destroy most threats. |
| 2:14.0 | Everyone here knows the sinister sound of drones that pass over, linger, pass On. And now I do too, having listened in the dead of night |
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