Inside a prisoner of war camp for Russians
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine and Russia swap POWs in a rare act of compassion, and the BBC’s James Waterhouse gets to visit a Ukrainian facility where Russian soldiers are being held.
We also hear from Emma Vardy about her documentary on British men who have volunteered to sign up to fight with Ukrainian soldiers. She tells us about what drives them and what the families they leave behind.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Fiona Leach. 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
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's 359 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:08.8 | And Russia and Ukraine have each exchanged 101 men in a prisoner of war swap in the last |
| 0:18.2 | 24 hours. |
| 0:21.5 | In a conflict in which the fighting and the killing seems relentless, prisoner swaps do |
| 0:27.3 | offer perhaps a small sign of humanity. |
| 0:34.5 | You can hear the sheer joy in the voices of those Ukrainian men shouting, glory to Ukraine, |
| 0:40.2 | one of them was seeing kissing the ground, and then the prisoners of Russia tasting freedom |
| 0:46.1 | for the first time, since God knows when. |
| 0:49.3 | The people greeting them are saying welcome to the motherland. |
| 1:00.1 | In today's podcast we'll be finding out how these prisoner swaps come about, and also |
| 1:05.0 | about the strict rules which govern how journalists report on them, with our own James Waterhouse |
| 1:10.7 | who's just visited a POW camp. |
| 1:14.5 | This is Ukraine Caste. |
| 1:16.5 | Ukraine Caste from BBC News. |
| 1:19.4 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain. |
| 1:24.0 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:27.1 | Putin is the aggressor, he will be rigid to use nuclear weapons. |
| 1:32.7 | They killed him and fled. |
| 1:34.2 | I do not know how we managed to survive. |
| 1:37.3 | I want people to know the truth. |
| 1:40.9 | Hello, this is Victoria Darbyshire at home in London. |
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