Summary
... and Ukraine vows to fight back.
Victoria Derbyshire and Gabriel Gatehouse reflect on this historic day... How did we get here? How did it all happen? And where could it be going?
We also speak to Vitaliy Shevchenko, the Russia editor at BBC Monitoring, and Askold Krushelnycky, a journalist in Ukraine.
Today's Ukrainecast was produced by Danny Wittenberg and Natalie Ktena. Emma Crowe was the technical producer. Sam Bonham was the assistant editor and Jonathan Aspinwall was the editor.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, I've been watching and listening since the early hours of this morning to so much |
| 0:20.7 | of what is coming out of Ukraine and this is a huge moment for Europe and a huge moment |
| 0:26.0 | for the world. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm getting messages from friends and contacts in Ukraine saying, |
| 0:31.2 | I've taken my kids down into the basement, we're hiding in the metro. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm looking at pictures here of people flocking to train stations. |
| 0:39.4 | This is a European country and it's at war. |
| 0:42.4 | It's extraordinary. |
| 0:43.8 | And it is war. |
| 0:45.0 | It is war. Of course, it's war. |
| 0:46.4 | They're being bombed. |
| 0:47.8 | They're tanks coming in, armoured vehicles. |
| 0:50.8 | Of course, this is a war. |
| 0:52.4 | I mean, this is a country that has been at war |
| 0:56.0 | for eight years in the east, but it's been very contained. |
| 0:59.8 | It's been bloody. |
| 1:01.2 | Thousands of people have died, but it's been contained. |
| 1:04.6 | And suddenly, all of those boundaries seem to have been lifted. |
| 1:09.2 | And we don't know where it's going. |
| 1:11.6 | This is Ukrainecast from the BBC. |
| 1:18.2 | Ukrainecast from this news. |
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