Putin "Liberates" Mariupol
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Russian President orders troops to seal off the port city.
Victoria speaks to defence expert, Justin Crump, about the situation in the city of Mariupol.
She also talks to a woman who had an emergency C-section in the basement of a hospital as the fighting was intensifying outside.
Anastasia Platonova from the BBC Russian Service – currently based in the Latvian capital, Riga – has been speaking to the mothers of Russian sailors who’ve gone missing.
And the BBC's Lewis Goodall returns to Poland to see how Ukrainian refugees are faring since his last visit.
Today's Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Osman Iqbal and Ben Cooper. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's day 57 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.1 | And in terms of the battle for Mariupol, today President Putin made this announcement. |
| 0:15.1 | President Putin just congratulated the Minister of Defence, Sergei Shigyev, with the successful |
| 0:30.6 | and of the Battle of Mary Opel, he underlined how important Mary Opel is to Russia. |
| 0:45.1 | He undermined that the fact that Mary Opel is now under complete control of the Russian forces is a success. |
| 0:56.6 | And he also stated that there is no need to storm the other style industry plant. |
| 1:02.0 | But he just requested that the plant is completely sealed off and under complete control of the Russian forces. |
| 1:10.2 | So according to President Putin, the Battle of Mary Opel is over, and the Russians have won. |
| 1:25.3 | This is Ukraine Cast. |
| 1:28.1 | Ukraine cast from the Muslims. |
| 1:30.9 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm ordering the Minister of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:41.2 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:46.0 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:48.0 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:52.3 | Hello, it's Victoria in the Ukraine Castudio in London. |
| 1:56.3 | And this is an estacea from the Russian service in Uyghur. |
| 2:00.2 | And Anastasia, just remind our listeners around the world why, as a member of staff at the Russian service, |
| 2:06.4 | you are operating from Uyghur in Latvia. |
| 2:09.6 | Since the beginning of the war, the Russian government hasn't introduced a number of laws, |
| 2:14.5 | making the operation of independent journalism extremely difficult, |
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