Released from Russia for a reunion with my 5 year old Ukrainian daughter
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Alice, the little girl whose video of life in the bunker went viral, was separated from her mum when they were evacuated by Russian troops. We heard she was safe with her grandmother in Poland and on today’s podcast, we hear the story of her Ukrainian mum, Victoria and what happened to her.
We hear the Ukrainian response to the news that a Dutch court has found three men guilty of murder for shooting down a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people .
And we hear from Liza Fokht from the BBC’s Russian Service about distressing new allegations about the Wagner Group - a shadowy Russian mercenary organisation which has been active across the world.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire, Vitaliy Shevchenko and James Waterhouse.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical coordinator was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. And the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 268 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.5 | And in today's episode, the family of an executed Wagner mercenary plead for his body |
| 0:16.0 | back. |
| 0:17.0 | We just want to understand, since it happened, how it happened, we would at least want |
| 0:24.8 | to give him a decent burial. |
| 0:27.3 | What happened to him is going to be on their conscience. |
| 0:31.1 | They'll get what they deserve. |
| 0:32.8 | We really want to know who did it. |
| 0:36.8 | And also we will discuss the implications of a verdict in a case involving a passenger |
| 0:41.8 | plane being shot down over Ukraine eight years ago and what it has to do with this year's |
| 0:49.3 | war. |
| 0:50.3 | This is Ukraine's cast. |
| 0:52.8 | Ukraine cast from this place. |
| 0:55.8 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 0:59.6 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:05.5 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:10.3 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:12.3 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:18.2 | I hope you remember the story of five-year-old Alice, a little Ukrainian girl who first came |
| 1:24.3 | to the world's attention when she was in a video, filmed in the basement of the as-of-star |
| 1:30.1 | steel plant saying she wanted to go home. |
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