Summary
What does Europe’s partial oil ban mean for Russia’s economy? After the EU agreed a compromise plan to stop its members importing Russian oil by sea, economist Timothy Ash tells Victoria who might be most hurt by the sanctions.
And BBC reporter Chloe Hajimatheou uncovers increasingly sophisticated disinformation tactics being deployed and spread globally.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Osman Iqbal and Daniel Wittenberg. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 97 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.8 | And the BBC's James Waterhouse has been speaking to a Ukrainian soldier who was actually captured |
| 0:16.6 | by the Russians and detained. |
| 0:19.7 | He's now been released in a prisoner exchange, and this man is a Marine. |
| 0:25.4 | He is called Klib Stritchko, and he was fighting for Maryupal before he was held for 17 days. |
| 0:33.5 | This is his testimony. |
| 0:35.5 | They held a dagger on my leg. |
| 0:39.4 | Up my throat, then led to my ear and said, it would be nice to cut off your ear. |
| 0:45.2 | They did it to nearly everyone. |
| 0:47.3 | I couldn't feed myself because my jaw was broken and I couldn't sit up, but some nurses |
| 0:52.6 | would taunt me by leaving food down in front of me and say, try and eat that, you low-life |
| 0:58.2 | Ukrainian. |
| 0:59.2 | We were lying there without any painkillers or anything, so only my faith and the understanding |
| 1:08.4 | that I had to survive helped me to carry on. |
| 1:12.5 | Klib Stritchko, and no doubt there will be dozens more stories like this to emerge in |
| 1:18.3 | the coming days and months. |
| 1:21.8 | This is Ukraine Kast. |
| 1:23.8 | Ukraine Kast. |
| 1:24.8 | For me, this is the worst. |
| 1:27.4 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
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