On the front lines in Ukraine
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show we take you on the ground in Bucha, where Russian forces have left a trail of devastation. Then we head east, where we hear from refugees who have escaped the embattled port city of Mariupol.
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In the suburb of Bucha, Russian forces have left a trail of violent devastation. Post journalists spent a week reporting from the area and counted more than 200 bodies. Foreign correspondent Louisa Loveluck says the actual number of dead is believed to be much higher. “It's very unusual to walk into a scene where the evidence is still fresh on the ground. And it was truly, incredibly shocking.”
And to the east in the Donbas region, Loveluck takes us to a center to which Mariupol residents have escaped. We hear some of their stories. While Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the United Nations he agrees to a humanitarian corridor “in principle,” Loveluck says that, “as someone who's been standing at that evacuation point for days, I can tell you that is not the case.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martine. |
| 0:03.4 | So just a heads up that today's show brings us on the ground in Ukraine. |
| 0:07.7 | And we're going to hear about some pretty graphic scenes of war. |
| 0:11.0 | So just be thoughtful about when and with whom you listen. |
| 0:16.2 | Luisa Loveleck has been reporting from Bucha, a suburb just outside the Capitol Cave. |
| 0:21.1 | That's one of the cities where we've been hearing about atrocities committed by Russian |
| 0:25.1 | troops. |
| 0:26.1 | And that's where we're going to start. |
| 0:28.0 | Here's Luisa. |
| 0:29.0 | And standing in a clearing in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. |
| 0:34.5 | And we're here because police have identified a body. |
| 0:37.9 | Now this clearing, this bit of woodland was used by the Russians as a base. |
| 0:41.7 | So we think you can see the ammunition crate, you can see the uniform. |
| 0:47.6 | And in and amongst the bottles of alcohol and the other detritus that they've left behind |
| 0:54.4 | is the body of a man. |
| 0:58.0 | We don't know who he is. |
| 1:01.2 | No one has officially come to check the body yet. |
| 1:03.7 | So we don't have any sort of prosecutors or coroners report. |
| 1:07.7 | But he looks as if he made a headdied violently. |
| 1:13.3 | His limbs are at quite odd angles. |
| 1:18.6 | And he certainly has been left. |
| 1:25.7 | This body was one of hundreds that post reporters counted over the course of a week in Bucha. |
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