Can the UN end the war?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The United Nations boss travels to Moscow to discuss peace with Putin.
Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko are joined by Lyse Doucet, BBC Chief International Correspondent, who presents Ukrainecast for the first time.
They discuss the prospect of a diplomatic solution to the conflict as the United Nations' Secretary General Antonio Guterres visits Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and President Putin.
We hear from a woman in close contact with fighters in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, who says water and food is running low.
Also on the podcast, BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale talks about reporting from the Donbas.
Today's Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn and Osman Iqbal. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | It's day 62 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.4 | And today the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is meeting Russia's president Putin |
| 0:14.0 | later and has already met Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. |
| 0:19.4 | The relations I came to Moscow as a messenger of peace. |
| 0:25.0 | I had a very frank discussion with the foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and it is clear |
| 0:31.1 | that there are two different positions on what is happening in Ukraine. |
| 0:37.2 | According to the Russian Federation, what is taking place is a special military operation |
| 0:42.6 | with the objectives that were announced. |
| 0:45.6 | According to the UN in line with resolutions passed by the General Assembly, Russia's |
| 0:50.8 | invasion of Ukraine is a violation of its territory integrity and against the charter |
| 0:56.4 | of the United Nations. |
| 0:58.4 | As every one of our listeners knows, so much at stake and yet tragically so little hope |
| 1:04.7 | that this diplomacy will succeed. |
| 1:08.3 | This is Ukraine's cast. |
| 1:12.3 | Ukraine costs for business. |
| 1:15.2 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm ordering the Minister of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:25.1 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:30.0 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:32.0 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:37.3 | Hello, it's Victoria in the Ukraine cast studio in London. |
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