Summary
A woman from Mariupol describes the humiliation her mother and father faced as they travelled through checkpoints out of the city.
Also, Irena Taranyuk from the BBC’s Ukrainian service tells Vitaly and Lewis how she’s been accused of not being pro-Ukrainian enough.
And on the day that Putin’s daughters are sanctioned, we dig into the secrecy around his family with journalist Farida Rustamova who dared to ask the Russian president about it.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn and Osman Iqbal. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 42 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine, |
| 0:08.8 | and we've had this message from a listener. |
| 0:11.4 | My name is Stacy, short from Anastasia, |
| 0:14.1 | and I live in Sydney, Australia, |
| 0:16.5 | but I actually was born in Moscow |
| 0:18.8 | and migrated to Australia about 10 years ago. |
| 0:21.5 | I've been seeing recently a lot of reports |
| 0:23.8 | about hate towards Russians, |
| 0:26.7 | and makes me very sad and a bit worried. |
| 0:29.4 | One thing I want to mention, one of my friends |
| 0:31.4 | who's a big anti-poutine protester, |
| 0:33.6 | who still lives in Moscow, |
| 0:35.2 | and he usually goes to protest. |
| 0:37.7 | I ask him if he did protest this time, |
| 0:40.2 | and he said, no, what's the point? |
| 0:42.9 | I really want to convey the message |
| 0:46.3 | that not all Russians are bad. |
| 0:48.3 | We can change the fact we were born Russians, |
| 0:50.6 | we are Russians. |
| 0:52.0 | I can't do anything about that, |
| 0:54.4 | but I really struggle with all of this hate |
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