Countdown to Eurovision with Ukraine's TVORCHI
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Can Ukraine get another Eurovision winner with Tvorchi? We hear from sound producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Tvorchi vocalist Jeffrey Kenny on their Eurovision experience and hopes for this year’s contest.
The BBC’s Frank Gardner and Barbara Plett-Usher bring us up to speed on this week’s Kremlin drone attacks. What happened, why is Russia blaming the US, and where could this lead?
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Drew Hyndman. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The series producer is Fiona Leach and the editor is 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 +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's 435 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.0 | And there were really extraordinary scenes yesterday when a fight, an actual fight broke out |
| 0:18.9 | between Ukrainian and Russian delegates at a meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation |
| 0:24.2 | organisation in Turkey. |
| 0:28.6 | Tensions rose when the Russian delegation's secretary Valery Stavitiki snatched the blue |
| 0:36.2 | and yellow flag of Ukraine out of the hands of the Ukrainian delegate, Alexander Marikovsky. |
| 0:46.8 | It had been waiving it to protest against a member of the ruling United Russia party |
| 0:51.5 | wearing a ribbon of St. George, seen by Ukrainians as a provocation. |
| 0:59.1 | And then the Ukrainian delegate chased after his Russian counterpart, throwing a fist his |
| 1:04.0 | way. |
| 1:05.0 | He had to be restrained by officials who could be heard shouting in the background, no fight. |
| 1:10.9 | The meeting which was convened by countries around the Black Sea was called to discuss |
| 1:15.2 | regional development, peace and diplomacy. |
| 1:24.2 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable, heart-haired and pain. |
| 1:31.6 | The hands of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:34.6 | Putin is the aggressor, he will be ready to use nuclear weapons. |
| 1:40.4 | They killed him and fled. |
| 1:41.8 | I do not know how we managed to survive. |
| 1:45.7 | Hello, this is Victoria at Home in London. |
| 1:51.4 | And this is Vitaly in the Ukraine car studio in London. |
| 1:55.0 | And I'm Frank Gardner, also here in the studio. |
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