Bodies on the Highway
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Grim signs of potential war crimes on the road to Kyiv. The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen joins us from near Ukraine’s capital, where he has seen the burnt remains of civilians, shot dead as they tried to flee Russian soldiers.
We also discuss reports of a Ukrainian attack on an oil depot in Russia and the latest plan to evacuate residents of occupied Mariupol.
Fergal Keane discusses the trauma many in Ukraine will be left with, long after the fighting stops, and introduces us to Valeriy, who was first evacuated from the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986, and now for a second time as a result of the war.
And we talk about Vladimir Putin’s ploy to demand oil and gas payments in roubles with political risk and geopolitics expert Dr Otilia Dhand.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Chris Flynn, Phil Marzouk and Miranda Slade. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 36 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.8 | And it appears that evidence of war crimes |
| 0:12.4 | is now emerging from the country, in particular, |
| 0:15.4 | from the outskirts of Kiev. |
| 0:17.7 | And this has come from the BBC's Jeremy Bowen, |
| 0:21.4 | who we can talk to now. |
| 0:23.2 | Tell us where you've been and why. |
| 0:26.5 | I went to an area that had just been recaptured |
| 0:30.1 | by the Ukrainians to the west of the capital. |
| 0:33.5 | It's probably, if you were, as the crow flies, |
| 0:35.7 | it's no more than about 10 miles. |
| 0:37.7 | It's 4 o'clock in the afternoon, so you're talking about |
| 0:40.7 | early hours of the morning, this was recaptured. |
| 0:43.2 | Absolutely, correct. So basically... |
| 0:45.1 | And we got there just a few hours after they had, |
| 0:48.2 | in fact, driven out the Russians. |
| 0:50.3 | And they did that with ground troops, |
| 0:52.9 | but also with a very heavy artillery bombardment |
| 0:55.6 | of their own. |
| 0:57.2 | And you may remember that, well, practically a month ago, |
| 1:01.5 | right at the beginning of the war, |
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