From Brother to Other

Analysis

BBC

Government, Politics, News

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It’s a year since Russia launched its war in Ukraine; a year that has brought failure, humiliation, defeat and heavy losses on the battlefield, and international isolation. The conflict has impacted the entire Russian population, with unprecedented sanctions and an unpopular and poorly executed nationwide mobilization. Ukraine was always considered Russia’s closest and most loved neighbour, and yet the Kremlin’s so-called ‘special military operation’ still apparently enjoys considerable support and acceptance among Russians.

Journalists Tim Whewell and Nick Sturdee tell the story of how the war has been presented to the Russian people. They explore the myths, lies and truths that have won Vladimir Putin the support he needs to sustain a war effort on whose success his rule and place in history will depend.

Talking to a Russian state TV talk-show host, Russia’s most famous war reporter, a singer and so-called ‘Z poet’, and volunteer Russian fighters in Ukraine, Analysis investigates how Russians' understanding of and support for the war are forged.

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0:44.0	I'm Tim Huell.
0:45.0	I've reported from Russia for many years, but hands up.
0:48.0	I got it wrong last year.
0:50.0	I didn't think there'd be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and like other people who know or thought they knew Russia
0:56.7	I'm finding it hard to take in how widespread support or at least acceptance of the war seems to be there.
1:05.0	So this program is an attempt by me and documentary filmmaker Nick Sturdy, who also knows Russia well,
1:11.0	to understand why people there have ended up living in what looks
1:14.7	to us like a parallel world. Here's Nick last February.
1:20.4	This guy's got a gun in front of me. Is he probably at me?
1:24.0	It was a cold, gray morning almost exactly a year ago.
1:28.0	I was filming at Hastomal Airfield
1:31.0	just outside the Ukrainian capital Kiev, when we ran into three soldiers.
1:35.0	He says, good.
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