Mariupol: Siege and occupation
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What’s life like inside the Russian-occupied city?
We’re joined in the studio by Ukrainian journalist and writer, Mstyslav Chernov, who made the film '20 Days in Mariupol’. He describes what it was like to shoot the documentary from inside Mariupol, which chronicles the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in 2022.
And Zhanna Bezpiatchuk from the BBC Ukrainian service gives us an insight into everyday life there under Russian occupation today.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Keiligh Baker, Arsenii Sokolov and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news 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
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 636 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, |
| 0:10.2 | and Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky has spoken to a British newspaper, The Sun, |
| 0:15.9 | about the various assassination attempts on his life. |
| 0:19.6 | I think the first one is very interesting, when it did first time, |
| 0:23.9 | and after that you are just like COVID. |
| 0:28.0 | First of all, people don't know what to do with it, and it's looking very scary. |
| 0:32.6 | Then after that, just intelligence, just sharing with you detail that one more group came to Ukraine to manage this. |
| 0:42.5 | Vladimir Zelensky must be enemy number one for Russia, which is hardly surprising. |
| 0:48.7 | What is surprising is that he has chosen to speak about these assassination attempts? |
| 0:54.0 | Also, this way he talks about them, he's so relaxed, seemingly very much refined. |
| 0:59.1 | Vladimir Zelensky. Yeah, you know, shrugging me shoulders, yeah, is it? |
| 1:01.6 | At least six. Yeah, we've got used to it. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah, so that's the president of Ukraine talking about at least five attempts on his life. |
| 1:10.9 | In today's episode, we are going to be looking at the current situation in the Russian |
| 1:15.7 | Occupy city of Mariupol, and looking back to the first 20 days of the siege, |
| 1:22.1 | when Russian tanks rolled in to the Ukrainian city. |
| 1:25.9 | And please be warned that we're going to be describing some graphic content in this episode. |
| 1:32.2 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:35.2 | Ukraine cast from Vibesynos. |
| 1:38.0 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain. |
| 1:42.7 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
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