Captured and in Court
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As a Russian soldier is put on trial in Ukraine for war crimes, Victoria and Vitaliy discuss whether he can receive a fair hearing in a Kyiv courtroom.
They speak to Natalia, whose husband is fighting at the steel plant in Mariupol. She says she hasn’t heard from him in nearly a week and fears for his life.
Finally we speak to the Ukrainian winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest Jamala. Her winning song was inspired by her great-grandmother’s experiences in World War Two and now she feels the history she sang about is repeating itself.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk with Osman Iqbal and Natalie Ktena. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk or send us a message or voice note on WhatsApp, our number is +44 0330 1234 220.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 79 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.4 | And today, for the first time, a Russian soldier |
| 0:12.8 | is being put on trial in a key of court for alleged war crimes. |
| 0:18.6 | And this man looks really young. |
| 0:22.2 | We know he's 21. |
| 0:24.2 | He is accused of shooting dead a 62-year-old Ukrainian civilian. |
| 0:29.9 | In court today in Kiev, he was wearing a blue and gray hoodie |
| 0:36.7 | with a shaven hair. |
| 0:39.2 | And he was escorted by officials into what |
| 0:43.6 | looked like a glass box to me, Vitaly, in the courtroom. |
| 0:46.8 | Is that the doc? |
| 0:48.2 | Yes, that's what they look like in Ukrainian courts. |
| 0:51.6 | And the actual sitting didn't take that much time. |
| 0:56.1 | All they did was decide that they're going |
| 0:58.5 | to properly start hearing the case next week on the 18th of May. |
| 1:04.5 | And it is important to stress that this young man was captured |
| 1:09.7 | by Ukrainian forces and stands trial in a Ukrainian court. |
| 1:16.6 | This is Ukraine, Kast. |
| 1:18.4 | Ukraine, Kast, from BBC News. |
| 1:22.0 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm ordering the Minister of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
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