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Ukrainecast

Mariupol one year on

Ukrainecast

BBC

News Commentary, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A year after Mariupol’s maternity hospital was bombed, Russia is spending huge amounts of money rebuilding the city. Vitaly speaks to residents living under Russian occupation.

Paul Adams, the BBC’s world affairs correspondent, assesses the latest barrage of missile attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.

And John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, explains why he blames Nato and the West for the war in Ukraine.

Today’s episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko.

The producers were Clare Williamson with Arsenii Sokolov and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. 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

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0:04.8

It's 380 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and for so many, each day can

0:11.6

be a struggle.

0:12.6

Ilya Polipenko's tank drove over a mine in southern Kherson region in September last

0:18.6

year.

0:19.6

I'm a mechanic and a tank driver.

0:24.0

I was out on a combat mission when our tank drove on a mine and caught fire.

0:28.7

I lost consciousness, when I came around, the fire was raging inside, I had to get

0:33.8

out quickly.

0:35.0

I crawled to the edge of the road and my comrades evacuated me.

0:42.1

He only just survived, and in the six months since, he's had several operations and skin

0:47.5

transplants for his burns, and his right leg has been amputated below the knee.

0:55.3

I had many surgeries, a skin graft and three operations on my leg.

1:01.1

There was a search for doctors, hope for specialists, who may be able to save my leg.

1:07.5

Then there was disappointment, and then some hope, because losing a limb is not the end.

1:15.6

This is a really remarkable figure, I think.

1:18.1

The WHO says one in two Ukrainians needed some form of rehabilitation last year, after

1:25.6

eight years of fighting in the east.

1:28.0

Now though, after Russia's full-scale invasion, that need for some kind of rehabilitation

1:33.9

has dramatically increased right across the country.

1:37.9

Ilya is getting better thanks to a rehabilitation center in Levyv, where all the patients have

1:44.1

lost at least one limb.

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