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Ukrainecast

Christiane Amanpour and Lyse Doucet

Ukrainecast

BBC

News Commentary, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why is Iran helping Russia?

Chief international anchor at CNN, Christiane Amanpour, and BBC chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, talk through Iran’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. And, as Zelensky reports that 30% of the country’s power stations have been destroyed by Russian missile strikes, we speak to Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, boss of Ukraine’s national energy company, about the struggles the country faces.

Today’s Ukrainecast was hosted by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.

It was made by Luke Radcliff. The technical director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The senior news editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to 0330 1239480.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.7

Hello, it's 240 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

0:08.9

And today we heard about Dmitro Bahnenko, who is from Herzogn, the city in southern Ukraine,

0:15.2

who spend months secretly recording his city's resistance to the Russian occupation.

0:31.0

Some of what he has recorded is extraordinary, and obviously a great personal danger to himself and to his family.

0:39.0

And he has now made a film with BBC I.

0:42.0

He essentially recorded life in Hassan from his flat, as food and medicines became scarce,

0:51.0

as people tried to flee and as others disappeared.

0:58.0

And this bit of audio from his young daughter, Ksyusha,

1:10.0

in it she's whispering, asking Dmitro, her father, when he'll be back,

1:18.0

and she's being told that her mother and herself will need to sleep in the corridor just in case there's an attack.

1:27.0

And Ksyusha says, I do not want them to shoot me.

1:36.0

She's four years old, and she's saying that she feels like she might be shot at.

1:42.0

I mean, it's just horrific.

1:45.0

We're going to bring you Dmitro's full story, and that of his family next week on Ukrainecast.

1:52.0

Today, on the podcast, we're going to talk about Iran and the energy crisis in Ukraine.

1:57.0

This is Ukrainecast.

2:00.0

Ukrainecast from BBC News.

2:03.0

The question for us now is to be or not to be.

2:07.0

I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert.

2:13.0

I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed.

2:18.0

Is the aggression?

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