Dnipro hospital destroyed in Russian attack
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
A missile strike on a medical centre in Dnipro has killed at least two people and injured dozens more. The BBC’s Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse is there and describes the rescue operation. Shashank Joshi, defence editor at The Economist, explains why Russia has targeted healthcare facilities. And Daniele Palumbo from BBC Verify explains how his team checked the authenticity of video of the hospital.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.
Produced by Clare Williamson with Arsenii Sokolov, Tom Smithard and Madeleine Drury. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 457 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.0 | And in the last few hours, there's been a Russian air strike on a medical facility in Nipro in eastern Ukraine. |
| 0:17.0 | That's the sound of a missile hitting the hospital, sent to us from a British aid worker staying in a nearby hotel. |
| 0:37.0 | The three-story building was partially destroyed and the fire spread throughout the site. |
| 0:47.0 | So we have been watching awful, awful footage from this medical facility. |
| 0:53.0 | One video in particular posted on Twitter by an MP who we've had on the podcast before showing a devastated corridor inside this medical facility. |
| 1:06.0 | And a man with blood on his face wearing a t-shirt and jeans being taken by three other men, dragged through the rubble to some kind of help, some kind of safety. |
| 1:19.0 | And it looks like a sort of hospital corridor, but full of bricks and cement and wires dangling down. |
| 1:27.0 | There's another video that's been posted which shows somebody simply filming as they walk through one of the corridors of the medical facility. |
| 1:39.0 | It's just, it's totally wrecked. I mean, there are some walls still standing unbelievably, but it's just covered in wrecked concrete wires, doors, just destruction. |
| 1:53.0 | You know, I've also seen a video of a woman standing next to a dead body shouting, daddy, daddy. It's heartbreaking. |
| 2:03.0 | And there's one more horrifying piece of footage. It is a woman who is alive, but her face is covered in blood, her clothes are covered in blood. |
| 2:14.0 | She's, she may even be a medical professional because she's wearing a white coat over jeans and a t-shirt. |
| 2:23.0 | I don't know if she is though. The white is red from blood from her face. |
| 2:30.0 | So far at least two people have been confirmed dead and 23 have been reported injured. |
| 2:37.0 | The two boys, H3 and 6, among the injured, according to local media, the regional governor says that 1,000 square meters of the building was covered in fire and a rescue operation is underway. |
| 2:50.0 | And I want to show with our listeners if it's okay with you, Vitaly. You actually are at the point now where you can't look at this footage. |
| 2:58.0 | I definitely can't enough. It's heartbreaking. It's too much. |
| 3:03.0 | And it's relentless. It's relentless. |
| 3:06.0 | President Zelensky has said that all necessary authorities were involved in the rescue operation and quote, |
| 3:14.0 | the Russians had confirmed their status as fighters against everything humane and honest. |
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