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From Our Own Correspondent

Life Under Russian Occupation

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Evidence suggests that war crimes have been committed in the Ukrainian towns and cities which fell under Russian occupation. Bodies of civilians have been left behind where Russian troops withdrew, and those Ukrainians who remained in their homes throughout have spoken of imprisonment, torture and murder. Sophie Williams spoke to a woman who managed to escape from Izyum, a city that Russian forces took over back in April, and she revealed what life was like there. Ukraine is effectively fighting a war on two fronts: there is the battle on the ground, but also the battle for public opinion, fought on the world stage. If Ukraine is to continue receiving arms from countries abroad, it must make sure it has those countries' support. That is particularly crucial when it comes to the US, which is supplying more assistance than any other. Tara McKelvey was watching as President Joe Biden tried to persuade people in the rural Midwest that such support is necessary. It is forty years since Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands, and Britain sent a task force to drive them out. Tributes have been paid to the hundreds of servicemen who were killed or injured, but what is sometimes overlooked is the role played by the Islanders themselves. Beth Timmins has been hearing how civilians there used a secret system of radio communication, to help those who had come to liberate them Paddy O'Connell has been a regular visitor to the beaches of Normandy, where his father fought in the allied landings of 1944. On his latest visit, he met the French son of a British soldier, trying to find out what had happened to his own father. Stephen Moss is a glote-trotting birdwatcher, whose hobby has taken him as far as Costa Rica. On a recent visit, he found that ornithology enthusiasts have been kept away by the Covid pandemic, meaning that local nature sanctuaries could close down.

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.3

Good morning.

0:07.0

Conflicts present and past are on the agenda this morning.

0:10.1

There's the ongoing war in Ukraine and the question of whether people in the United

0:14.7

States really want their government to offer so much support.

0:19.7

Forty years on from the Falklands War, we hear about the clandestine contribution made

0:25.0

by the island's civilians.

0:27.4

A correspondent visiting Normandy meets the French son of a British World War II soldier

0:32.8

still trying to find out what became of his father.

0:36.5

And also the hunt for hummingbirds in Central America, why the international pursuit of feathered

0:42.4

beauty has gone into decline.

0:44.9

First, what's going on in the Ukrainian towns and cities which have fallen under Russian

0:51.0

occupation?

0:52.6

Unclines are still in flux, with towns and villages succumbing to the invading forces,

0:58.8

then being liberated, but now facing the threat of being taken back by Russia all over

1:04.7

again.

1:05.7

In the midst of the fighting it seems clear that war crimes have been committed, the evidence,

1:11.3

the bodies of civilians left behind where Russian troops have withdrawn, and the stories

1:16.7

told by those who stayed on in their homes when those troops took over.

1:21.5

Yet huge swathes of Ukrainian territory are still under Russian control, among them

1:27.1

the eastern city of Izum.

1:29.5

Sophie Williams heard from one woman who managed to escape from Izum and revealed what life

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