Kherson: Russian retreat?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Russia has ordered its military to pull out of Kherson, the only regional capital it captured after invading Ukraine in February. The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen gives us his appraisal of whether we can believe what Russia says about troop movements. The news came shortly after the announcement that the Russian-appointed official in the region, Kirill Stremousov, had been killed in a car crash. BBC investigative reporter Tim Whewell tells Vitaly about the significance of Stremousov’s death.
We hear from Anthony Zurcher, BBC’s North America reporter, about the US mid-term elections and what the ramifications might mean for the country’s support for Ukraine. And we hear from Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s former foreign minister, who tells Victoria and Vitaliy how the war has brought Ukraine and Poland closer together.
Today’s episode was presented by Vitaliy Shevchenko and Victoria Derbyshire.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Clare Williamson. The technical coordinator is Emma Crowe. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The assistant editor is Alison Gee. And the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 259 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.1 | As it can happen sometimes, we had finished recording today's episode and were in the middle |
| 0:15.8 | of editing when we had news from Kerosene, not one, but two major stories breaking. |
| 0:25.8 | As our listeners will know, there's been some speculation for a while now for months about |
| 0:31.2 | the fate of this Russian occupied city. |
| 0:35.5 | At the end of September, President Putin announced that Kerosene was now part of Russia amid |
| 0:40.7 | huge fanfare. |
| 0:42.8 | Then last week, Russia announced that it was evacuating civilians from Kerosene, and there |
| 0:49.3 | was a lot of talk about Ukrainian forces trying to retake Kerosene at any moment. |
| 0:57.5 | And back to today, after three o'clock key of time, news broke that the second most important |
| 1:13.4 | Russian-pointed official in Kerosene, called Kirill Stremosev, had been killed, apparently |
| 1:20.8 | in a car crash, and he is wanted by Ukraine for treason. |
| 1:31.9 | Then a couple of hours later, the Russian military announced that they were pulling out from |
| 1:38.6 | Kerosene, and Kerosene matters because it's the only regional capital captured by Russia |
| 1:45.6 | since it invaded Ukraine in February. |
| 1:49.4 | Let's be honest, there's still a lot we don't know about what's going on in Kerosene |
| 1:53.7 | at this stage, but what we do know, we're going to try and make sense of in today's |
| 2:00.2 | episode. |
| 2:01.2 | Also, Americans went back to the ballad box yesterday, and we'll talk about what the |
| 2:05.8 | NIC-term election results there might mean for the conflict in Ukraine. |
| 2:11.3 | This is Ukraine, Kerosene. |
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