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Ukrainecast

Learning the language

Ukrainecast

BBC

News Commentary, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Teacher, Anna Ohoiko, joins us to give listeners - and Victoria - a lesson in the Ukrainian language.

The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent James Landale is in Kyiv and tells us that Ukrainians are beginning to question whether to stay and fight in Bakhmut, or retreat and regroup. And he tells us about a new bar that’s opened in Kyiv as people show their determination to keep living.

And who is the Russian Volunteer Corps? BBC Russia’s Liza Fokht tries to shed some light on the Russian group fighting Putin.

Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts Hello, it's 384 days since Russia

0:07.4

began its invasion of Ukraine. And while you and I, Vitaly, are sitting in the relative

0:12.1

comfort of a house and a studio in London, our colleagues in Ukraine are taking risks to

0:18.4

get the story out. Of course, no more risk than millions of Ukrainians themselves are taking.

0:24.0

As we can hear from this video, risks nonetheless.

0:27.0

We are looking at here as footage from a BBC news crew that was filming a local volunteer

0:39.4

group delivering aid to a very small town called Milover in Krason region and then they

0:46.6

came under attack. Milover was occupied by the Russians until last November when Ukrainian

1:02.7

forces retook it, but it is very close to the area east of the Danipo River, still held

1:07.6

by Russia. And the missiles, which exploded nearby, had come from that direction and then

1:13.6

there was a second strike. And here you can just about make out our colleagues, reporter

1:29.3

Victoria Zuhan, producer Claire Press and cameraman Kevin McGregor. And you can hear their

1:35.5

words picked up by the camera's mic as they run to take cover.

1:44.5

Nobody was killed in their attack according to Ukrainian authorities. This is Ukraine

1:52.0

coast. Ukraine coast from BBC news. Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heart-haired

2:00.0

and pain. millions of people are without heating, without water. Putin is the aggressor.

2:06.0

He will be ready to use nuclear weapons. They killed him and fled. I do not know how

2:13.0

we managed to survive. I want people to know the truth. Hello, this is Victoria Darbshire

2:20.0

at home in London. And this is Vitaly Shobchenko in the Ukraine

2:23.5

car studio in London. And since last Thursday's barrage of missile attacks hitting civilian

2:29.0

and energy targets across Ukraine and killing at least nine people, things seem to have turned

2:36.0

a little quieter. Yes, almost as if we're waiting for something to happen. And there's a lot

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