Elya’s story: A refugee returns home
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Elya describes how she took her eight-year-old niece out of Ukraine after a missile hit her home in Kharkiv last year. Elya was just 17 at the time. Now she’s returned to visit her parents and says: “It’s the most times I’ve seen my father cry.”
The BBC’s Francis Scarr reports on the assassination of a pro-war blogger in St Petersburg, a defection and suggestions that Ukraine may be willing to negotiate over Crimea.
And Ivan Chuvilyaev explains how the group Idite Lesom (Go By the Forest) is helping Russians afraid of mobilisation.
And finally Vitaly tells Victoria about the Ukrainian origins of the humble Easter egg.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Sam Bonham. 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
Audio credit: The Dossier Center
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 407 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.4 | Clocking up nearly 5,000 miles in Dorset, |
| 0:14.0 | which is a beautiful county on the southwest coast of England, |
| 0:17.2 | the bus you are hearing has been retired from service |
| 0:20.6 | and re-kitted as a mobile hospital, |
| 0:23.6 | which is going to be driven to Ukraine. |
| 0:25.6 | We have a huge shortage of doctors in Ukraine, |
| 0:30.6 | but mobile hospitals like that can move from village to village, |
| 0:35.6 | from small town to small town, |
| 0:38.6 | and people can meet doctors for day-by-day help |
| 0:43.6 | for people who left behind. |
| 0:45.6 | That's Natalia Sokhovieva, a business development manager in Swindon, |
| 0:57.6 | who's helped bring the project to life. |
| 1:00.6 | It's hoped that the bus fitted with hospital beds and emergency equipment |
| 1:04.6 | will help ease the burden in my home country. |
| 1:07.6 | It will look as close to a hospital wall as we can make it, |
| 1:11.6 | so babies may be born in here, |
| 1:13.6 | children may be treated, but I know it's going to be a huge use. |
| 1:17.6 | The Swindon Humanitarian Partnership |
| 1:20.6 | and Mike Bowden, who you just heard that, |
| 1:22.6 | hope this bus being seen off by a local Ukrainian choir |
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