Summary
As the first evacuees arrive in Zaporizhzhia after weeks sheltering from bombs in the Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, Newsnight’s Lewis Goodall and Vitaliy Shevchenko speak to James Elder from Unicef as he tells us about greeting these people and their stories. We also speak to the BBC’s Abduljalil Abdurasulov, who's spent time in the trenches with Ukrainian armed forces in the southern city of Mykolaiv while civilians there endure daily Russian attacks.
And we run through the latest developments, including Boris Johnson addressing the Ukrainian parliament making him ever more popular with their people and ever more unpopular with the Russian state.
Today's Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk, with Osman Iqbal and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 69 days since the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, and we'll be talking |
| 0:11.4 | about the latest from the South and the East in this episode. |
| 0:14.9 | But before that, we wanted to open with an uplifting story. |
| 0:18.6 | Not something that happens every day on Ukraine, but for this we're going to head over to West |
| 0:22.5 | in Ukraine to a city that, of course, all of you will know very well, Levy. |
| 0:26.1 | At the city's central hospital, a young woman from the city of Lysia Chansk in the heavily |
| 0:31.1 | contested Donbass region, had been receiving surgery after losing her legs and four fingers |
| 0:37.0 | to a Russian mine on the 27th of March. |
| 0:40.3 | And now five surgeries and one month later, she shared her first wedding dance with her |
| 0:45.2 | new husband in the hospital ward. |
| 0:51.8 | There and Aksana embraced and danced to the song Bride by the Ukrainian band Zidzo, and today |
| 1:01.8 | they are a reminder that joy can still be found in even the darkest of circumstances. |
| 1:10.2 | This is the Ukraine cast. |
| 1:13.2 | Ukraine cast from the East. |
| 1:17.2 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:21.2 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:27.2 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:32.2 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:34.2 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:39.2 | Hello, it's Lewis in the Ukraine cast studio in London. |
| 1:42.2 | And it's Vitaly in the Ukraine cast studio in London as well. |
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