Life in a Russian prison
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Kremlin defends the death sentences for three captured soldiers. Fergal and Vitaliy are joined by BBC Russian Service’s Olga Ivshina to understand more about what is happening in Ukraine.
They speak to former US Army medic, Brennan Phillips, and the Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, who was kidnapped and imprisoned by Russian soldiers.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Alix Pickles and Natalie Ktena. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 107 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.7 | Yesterday we spoke about two British men, Aidan Aslan and Sean Pinner, who were handed |
| 0:16.4 | death sentences by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine in Donetsk. |
| 0:23.3 | And on Russian TV, a panel discussed in a serious and heated debate how they thought |
| 0:31.4 | the men should be executed, or whether they should be kept alive and used as ransom |
| 0:36.3 | and exchanged with Britain in return for Russia's frozen assets. |
| 0:42.3 | This is a clip from a talk show broadcast by Russia's most popular TV station, state |
| 0:53.3 | run Russia 1, where panelists are discussing what should be done to the captives. |
| 1:00.8 | And it's very important because both Russians and Ukrainians know that none of this would |
| 1:06.4 | be happening without relentless propaganda pumped out by Russian state TV. |
| 1:16.6 | This is what they need to justify their invasion to try and win the hearts and minds of |
| 1:23.2 | the locals in Ukraine. |
| 1:25.9 | And since the invasion started in February, we've seen that Russian forces have been deploying |
| 1:33.0 | trucks with huge screens to broadcast Russian state TV to towns and cities they've captured. |
| 1:40.8 | And the Russian army has been sending military trucks with broadcast capabilities to pump |
| 1:47.4 | out this kind of propaganda message to both parts and their control and neighboring Ukrainian |
| 1:55.0 | controlled areas because they know they need to come up with a justification for their |
| 2:00.9 | war. |
| 2:01.9 | Well, we talk more about the sentencing what we know and there's everyone who are dealing |
| 2:06.2 | with Russia and the so-called People's Republic, what we don't know, today and the |
| 2:11.5 | broadcast. |
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