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Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Victoria and Vitaliy speak to executive director of Disability Rights International Eric Rosenthal about their investigation into how Ukraine’s disabled children have been abandoned by their carers in institutions that don’t know how to look after them.
A 21-year-old man from Donetsk tells us how he left his home, his friends, his life in order to avoid forced conscription into the Russian forces by Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region.
Ukrainecast listener, commercial airline pilot and social media star Captain Denys tells us how his livelihood was swiftly lost as Russian’s entered Ukrainian airspace and of his new life in a remote Ukrainian village.
And we get the latest updates from the eastern front as a crucial bridge in Dnipro is destroyed as the Russian military attempts to disrupt Ukrainian army supply routes.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Osman Iqbal, Miranda Sawyer and Phil Marzouk. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voicenote via WhatsApp to +44 0330 1234 220.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 71 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.3 | And Vitaly would like you to have a listen to this. |
| 0:18.1 | The sounds of air raids sirens in Nipro, Ukraine's third most populated city in Eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:29.4 | To me, it's a very poignant example of how things are in Ukraine currently. |
| 0:36.2 | It starts very peacefully, the sounds of birds and dogs barking. |
| 0:43.7 | That's how I remember Eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:45.9 | Everyone's out, everyone's talking to their neighbors. |
| 0:48.9 | The children are playing, everyone's relaxed and having fun in a peaceful kind of way. |
| 0:56.6 | Suddenly, there's an explosion, and the man who's filming the video says, |
| 1:03.8 | God save us all, and then somebody out in the street says, |
| 1:09.0 | Khovaltis a быстрie! Run, run for cover. |
| 1:15.4 | And that's how things are in Ukraine right now. |
| 1:18.0 | It's one of those things where an audio clip is worth a thousand years. |
| 1:26.9 | This is Ukraine, Kast. |
| 1:28.9 | Ukraine, Kast. |
| 1:30.2 | For me, this is... |
| 1:31.8 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defense to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:41.8 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:46.4 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:48.6 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
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