Cold-calling Russia
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As footage emerges that appears to show war crimes being committed by Ukrainian soldiers we speak to one of the BBC’s team of journalists working to establish if the material is authentic.
We hear from a man who’s made the decision to go home to Kyiv after having fled when war broke.
A Lithuanian man explains how he’s trying to tell Russian people what’s really happening in Ukraine, by cold-calling and talking to them.
Victoria Derbyshire, Vitaly Shevchenko, and Frank Gardner present this episode, and answer questions that have been sent in.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn and Phil Marzouk. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 43 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.9 | And there was an interview that you did, Vitaly, |
| 0:12.3 | where the woman called Lera on yesterday's episode |
| 0:15.0 | of Ukraine cast, which has really touched so many people. |
| 0:20.2 | So they let our parents away, and we saw that they made |
| 0:28.2 | my mother take off her trousers as five men, |
| 0:34.4 | Russians and Chechens were watching. |
| 0:37.2 | It was very unpleasant. |
| 0:39.0 | They kept making jokes, saying, |
| 0:41.6 | what do you cover? |
| 0:43.0 | You're underwear, what do you cover yourself? |
| 0:45.5 | And where did you bend over? |
| 0:48.9 | But the name on my papa. |
| 0:51.2 | At that point, my father was being held at gunpoint. |
| 0:55.6 | There was nothing he could do. |
| 0:57.9 | And they made my mother show her collar bones. |
| 1:09.6 | After they checked our parents, |
| 1:12.4 | they kept asking them questions. |
| 1:15.2 | After checking our phones, they handed them back to us, |
| 1:19.4 | thank God. |
| 1:20.7 | All this lasted for about 40 minutes, |
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