Return to Bucha: how a community rebuilds after a massacre
Ukraine: The Latest
Louisa Wells / Francis Dearnley
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This episode is available now to Telegraph subscribers and will be available to everyone on the 17th July.
In the first of The Telegraph's special podcasts on the war in Ukraine. Presenter David Knowles and Producer Adélie Pojzman-Pontay travel to Bucha and Hostomel, north of Kyiv, to hear the stories of citizens who survived Russia's brutal occupation in Spring 2022.
In Hostomel they meet Roman, a young Ukrainian man who fled his new apartment as Russian forces advanced. When he returned after the liberation he discovered the disgusting ways the occupying troops had treated his home.
Then, they travel to Bucha to see an old friend, Ihor Savchenko. Two years on from the occupation of Bucha, Ihor is helping his community piece their lives back together even though the war threatens to engulf him once again.
We first met Ihor's daughter Katya in 2022 - listen to that episode here: https://shows.acast.com/ukraine-the-latest/episodes/658301371b4a0600176a40ee
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| 0:00.0 | Rha |
| 0:03.0 | for the British, Ukraine, but Vique. |
| 0:05.0 | When we were not the Ukrainian |
| 0:06.0 | Sultat, but not the British. |
| 0:08.0 | What were we in saying? |
| 0:12.0 | What are we saying? I ask for what is this is a gun? |
| 0:15.0 | Unsurprisingly it's not a gun. |
| 0:17.0 | Unsurprisingly it's not a gun. |
| 0:19.0 | But the microphone, my producer Adle is holding in her hands and pointing towards me. |
| 0:23.0 | To be fair though, they're not entirely wrong. |
| 0:26.0 | It's a bulky black thing with a handle and a fuzzy bonnet at one end. |
| 0:30.0 | It could be some sort of weird gun. |
| 0:32.0 | We're 10 kilometers from the outskirts of Kyiv, standing in a playground |
| 0:36.6 | in an apartment complex in Hostomel. |
| 0:39.2 | In a third floor window in one of the flats in front of us we can see a split Ukrainian and a Union Jack flag. |
| 0:46.0 | Postomal is part of the small cluster of suburbs that were on the front lines in February and March 2022. |
| 0:52.0 | Their names, Boucher, Iropin and Hostomel, became bywords for occupation, |
| 0:59.6 | brutality and war crimes. Two years on life has somewhat returned to these towns, but |
| 1:06.3 | traces of the war are everywhere, including the playground. So this... |
| 1:11.6 | Our translator points towards the playground's centerpiece. |
| 1:14.0 | Do you know Garz the plane, Maria? |
| 1:17.0 | A climbing frame in a rather unusual shape. |
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