Lidiia's story: The 98-year-old who fled from Russian occupation in her slippers
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
When Lidiia’s home town in the Donbas region became a battlefield, the 98-year-old walked through the fighting to safety 10km away. Ukrainian police eventually picked her up when they saw her and asked, “Hey granny, where are you off to?”
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 856 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.0 | In today's episode, we hear from a 98 year old Granny who fled from the Russian army by |
| 0:16.3 | walking 10 kilometers. |
| 0:25.0 | It was very scary, not a soul for 10 kilometers. |
| 0:29.0 | There was a lot of shooting and I didn't know whether they were shooting at me, there were shells, I was leaning on my cane |
| 0:39.2 | and there was nothing for me to do but keep walking. |
| 0:42.8 | Lydia's home is in the Dunbar region, which has been under fire since 2014 by Russian and Russian backed forces and became one of the key areas which |
| 0:55.7 | Vladimir Putin's army has been trying to capture since the start of the full-scale |
| 1:00.1 | invasion. We'll also hear from a Ukrainian journalist who's from that part of Ukraine and |
| 1:04.8 | he'll tell us what life is like for Ukrainians living under Russian occupation. |
| 1:10.0 | This is Ukrainecast. |
| 1:16.0 | Ukraine Kast. This is Ukraine cast. The Ukraine cast from museums. Evil cannot be trusted. |
| 1:18.0 | Ask brigosion. |
| 1:20.0 | You are not dealing with a politician but with a bloody monster. |
| 1:24.0 | Is there a need for a serious opponent? Why? |
| 1:27.0 | Ukraine is unbroken, unbowed and unconquer. |
| 1:31.0 | It's not just about Ukraine, it's about the whole future of Europe. |
| 1:34.0 | I don't understand what this war is for. |
| 1:38.0 | Hello, this is Vitalishevchenko in the Ukraine Cars studio, and I'm joined by Denis Gazanski, a Ukrainian journalist who is originally from Denisk. |
| 1:48.0 | Mr Kazanski, welcome to Ukrainecast. |
| 1:50.0 | Hello. So tell us first, what's your connection to Dunbar and why you had to leave the region? |
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