Summary
Fergal Keane joins Vitaliy to talk to a member of Bucha’s city council who tells us more accounts of atrocities in his city and how it can rebuild.
Friend of the podcast Olga Malchevska reports from Kharkiv: the eastern border city in which Ukrainian forces pushed out Russian troops.
Vitaliy and Fergal answer your questions before Vitaliy tells us about his upcoming documentary on a women’s football team in Mariupol.
Today’s Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Phil Marzouk and Osman Iqbal. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 0330 1234 220.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, it's 86 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.4 | And still, those forces focus their efforts |
| 0:12.4 | on the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine. |
| 0:15.0 | There's a drone, there's a drone, but there's a drone. |
| 0:18.2 | As the slow advance of Russian troops continues, |
| 0:21.4 | Ukrainian troops are doing everything they can |
| 0:24.3 | to halt any further progress, including blowing up |
| 0:28.5 | the bridge in Lawrence region. |
| 0:32.2 | The Ukrainians appear to be using landmines, |
| 0:34.9 | which they place under this enormous concrete bridge. |
| 0:39.0 | They count five, and there's a massive explosion. |
| 0:47.7 | The point is, everything they can do |
| 0:50.8 | to slow down the Russians, they do it. |
| 0:53.5 | And also, more harrowing video evidence |
| 0:56.9 | of alleged war crimes in Butcher. |
| 0:59.4 | That's the summer of Kiev, where some of the worst atrocities |
| 1:02.6 | of the war have taken place. |
| 1:04.4 | The video, which is taken from CCTV footage, |
| 1:07.3 | shows men, a line of men, crouched over, |
| 1:10.6 | and being marched, single-file, across a road |
| 1:14.0 | by armed Russian troops. |
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