Summary
A new attack at the border of Poland sparks fears of further escalation by Russian forces, as Vitaly updates us on what’s happened over the weekend. Meanwhile, footage from Mariupol shows the effects of being under siege for the past ten days, with Ukrainian authorities claiming over 2,500 deaths in the city. As many flee, the remaining residents are unable to be contacted due to regular power outages. Victoria speaks to a Ukrainian MP who grew up in Mariupol, and whose parents are still in the city, about what it’s like in that part of Ukraine, while Gabriel speaks to a woman from Scotland who has been unable to get in touch with her parents in Mariupol in the last ten days. And we hear from Sergey Radchenko an expert in international relations and Russian security policy about the ongoing peace talks, and what we’re seeing from both sides of the conflict.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle, with Emma Forde, Phil Marzouk, Chris Flynn, and Michele Theil. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 19 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.8 | Shared on social media today is aerial footage of Maripol. |
| 0:15.8 | This is the city that has been under siege for days now. |
| 0:20.0 | People are trapped in there, people have not been able to escape, |
| 0:23.2 | but this aerial footage shows smoke rising from so many buildings, |
| 0:27.8 | including various apartment blocks, |
| 0:31.2 | the smoke sort of silhouetted against the blue sky in the background. |
| 0:34.9 | It looks like a city under siege, doesn't it? |
| 0:37.0 | And there's just smoke rising as far as the eye can see from different places, |
| 0:42.2 | so it just gives you a sense of how widespread it is. |
| 0:46.6 | And so that's in the south of the country, |
| 0:48.8 | and then, of course, yesterday in the very west of Ukraine, |
| 0:52.7 | we had for the first time an attack in that part of... |
| 0:56.9 | But these were multiple missile strikes on the Yavarov military base, |
| 1:01.1 | right in the west of Ukraine, |
| 1:02.5 | and it's literally about 10 miles from the Polish border. |
| 1:05.0 | So people on the other side of the border could feel the vibrations in this missile struck. |
| 1:10.0 | So it feels like the war physically is coming closer to the border of the EU and the borders of NATO. |
| 1:18.7 | This is Ukraine, Kast. |
| 1:20.7 | Ukraine, Kast, from the east. |
| 1:24.5 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
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