Moscow Attack: How could it Impact the War?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Top Russian officials have directly accused Ukraine and the West of being involved in the deadly Moscow concert hall attack, after it was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
We speak to one woman, Valentina, who lives in Russia, about how safe she feels in the country and whether she’s taking the Kremlin’s line.
And two Kremlinologists, Angela Stent from Georgetown and Hanne Notte from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, discuss whether this could result in an escalation in fighting.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. 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. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 762 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.1 | And we were all really closely following the news of the Moscow concert hall |
| 0:14.4 | attack on Friday night. |
| 0:17.6 | It looked very bad straight away and it brought back memories of previous such attacks in Russia and Russia unfortunately has had a few particularly Besslan, the hostage taking in a school in Besslan where more than 300 people died and this is clearly something that Russians would have hoped was |
| 0:47.4 | firmly in the past and here we are it happened, the worst such attack in Russia for almost 20 years. |
| 0:56.0 | And it was really grim to see the social media footage. |
| 1:00.0 | Because people within the concert hall, people in the foyer of the concert hall filmed these |
| 1:08.0 | four gunmen pretty much casually strolling into that concert hall with serious assault rifles and when they got into the main body of the hall they started shooting indiscriminately. |
| 1:23.0 | And of course people are cowering behind seats, |
| 1:29.0 | dropping to the floor to try to avoid the gunman's bullets, but they managed to kill over 130 people and more |
| 1:35.9 | than 100 people were injured. |
| 1:37.6 | Not something you'd expect to see in a city where security is normally very tight, |
| 1:42.1 | lots of metal detectors lots of police with |
| 1:45.6 | sniffed dogs and now this happens and they managed to escape they drove off I mean |
| 1:50.5 | it's just... Bizarre. |
| 1:53.0 | Well today we're going to hear on Ukrainecast how these attacks are being responded to amongst some |
| 2:00.3 | of the Russian people and of course we'll talk about what any of it might mean for the |
| 2:04.6 | war in Ukraine. This is Ukraine cast. Ukraine cast from BBC News. |
| 2:11.2 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain. |
| 2:16.0 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 2:19.0 | Putin is the aggressor. |
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