Black Sea Ports Under Attack
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Will the collapse of the UN grain deal and attack on port cities in Ukraine affect food security?
James Waterhouse joins us from a grain processing plant in Poltava and we also hear from Oksana Karabin, who works for Ukraine's biggest grain exporter Kernel. Their terminal was shelled this week destroying 60 tonnes of grain.
And we return to the issue of the forced deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia. We hear from Vice correspondent Isobel Yeung and the BBC’s Kateryna Khinkulova - two journalists who’ve been investigating the story for several months.
Today’s episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Lyse Doucet.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Tom Smithard. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 513 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.0 | James, what a house is back with us. |
| 0:13.0 | James, you've just returned to Ukraine after a few weeks away. |
| 0:16.0 | We last spoke to you from the floods and her song, but how is it being back? |
| 0:21.0 | It feels like sometimes it feels like a bit of a calm down Lucy to be honest with you, |
| 0:26.0 | because when we spoke during the floods of her song after the destruction of the Kharovka Dam, |
| 0:32.0 | we had those first waves of liberation, and it was a 10 days of complete whirlwind 10 days before I went on this break. |
| 0:40.0 | And you come back to sort of relative calm, but calm doesn't usually mean bad. |
| 0:47.0 | It actually just means constant because Ukraine is still trying to break through with its counteroffensive. |
| 0:55.0 | Everything is going to plan, but it clearly hasn't made a sizable breakthrough. |
| 1:01.0 | And I've had to learn just to kind of go with the fluid nature of this conflict, |
| 1:06.0 | because it is a chain of fast moving events which has become impossible to predict. |
| 1:11.0 | Being back is great. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. |
| 1:18.0 | But if you were to ask me to predict what the next couple of months will bring, |
| 1:23.0 | just impossible, and I've learned not to try. |
| 1:26.0 | But for now, sadly, we are talking about a global food crisis, |
| 1:30.0 | but also we mustn't lose sight that this war with all of its intense fighting is very much continuing. |
| 1:38.0 | More on the food crisis at a moment, this is Ukraine past. |
| 1:43.0 | Ukraine costs for lives and lives. |
| 1:47.0 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain. |
| 1:52.0 | Humans of people are without heating, without water. |
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