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The Documentary Podcast

Evacuated to Russia

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

More than a million Ukrainian civilians from Mariupol and other war-ravaged towns in the east of the country have been transported over the border into the territory of their country’s enemy, Russia. The authorities there have dispersed them into a chain of “temporary accommodation centres” across Russia, some of them thousands of miles from Ukraine. Russia claims it’s rescued the refugees – and says some want to build new lives with Russian citizenship in places as far away as Vladivostok, on the Pacific Ocean. But many of the Ukrainians are trying to avoid or leave the accommodation centres, and get out of Russia – and they’re being helped by a network of volunteers inside and outside the country. Ukraine says many of the “evacuees” have been forcibly deported to Russia against their will – and they’re being subjected to a form of slavery in sealed camps. Tim Whewell talks to refugees in Russia – and others who’ve managed to leave the country – to try to find out what’s really going on.

Transcript

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0:00.0

ВЕСЕЛАЯ МУЗЫКА

0:07.0

Несколько недель мышили в подвале,

0:11.9

готовили на отказку.

0:13.6

За 여러ю Мену мы в HeeChee, qooht.

0:24.0

Бёмп им с хочетом морозы-idadю с Суфavoir.

0:33.5

Ольга Айне.

0:41.5

Они зашли.

0:43.5

Then soldiers came to our house and said it was quiet.

0:47.5

This was the best time to leave.

0:49.5

So at six next morning we left.

0:51.5

1.6 часов уже уже.

0:57.5

Unmarch 27.

0:59.5

A young Ukrainian architecture student called Vada

1:02.5

fled the rubble of her home city, Maru-Po,

1:05.5

devastated by Russian bombardment,

1:07.5

together with her mother, stepfather, fiancee,

1:10.5

and two godparents.

1:12.5

But they didn't go west,

1:13.5

like the millions of Ukrainian refugees,

1:16.5

now in safer parts of their own country,

1:18.5

or elsewhere in Europe.

1:20.5

Their only chance of escape was east,

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