Russia blames deadly attack on mobile phones

Ukrainecast

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Moscow has blamed Russian soldiers’ for a deadly attack that killed at least 89 of them in eastern Ukraine. It said their mobile phone use enabled Ukrainian forces to work out their location.

Olga Ivshina from the BBC’s Russian service brings us up to date on the deadliest attack from a single Ukrainian strike since the war began.

Documentary maker Olly Lambert spent two months embedded with Ukrainian volunteer special forces as they pushed to retake Kherson. They shared what motivated them and what it was like to swap a normal life for the front line.

And author and historian Olesya Khromeychuk talks about her brother’s death and the role of culture in the war.

Today’s episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	It's 315 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.
0:10.3	A new year and now familiar sound.
0:21.0	Fighting on the front line shows no sign of abating and casualties amounting on both sides.
0:26.6	Each army is digging in, but neither seems able to take new ground and the war is grinding on.
0:33.6	In some cases, house to house and trench to trench, but Ukrainians keep finding new ways to maintain morale.
0:57.6	And this fiddle player turned soldier, we say Bondarenko, has become a viral hit.
1:08.6	Videos of his performances on the front lines and from bombed out buildings have racked up tens of thousands of views.
1:26.6	He's one of many to have left an ordinary life behind to fight on the front line, and we're going to hear in this episode about others who have done the same.
1:50.6	This is Ukraine cast.
1:57.6	The question for us now is to be or not to be.
2:00.6	I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert.
2:06.6	I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is Bond.
2:11.6	He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands.
2:18.6	Hello, this is Lucy Hawkins in the Ukraine cast studio.
2:21.6	And this is Vitaly Shevchenko, also in the Ukraine cast studio in London.
2:26.6	In a moment we'll be chatting with Oli Lambert about his documentary recording the lives of regular Ukrainians who ditched their day jobs to put on a uniform.
2:37.6	But first, we're going to get up to speed with what seems like a really quite significant moment in this war.
2:44.6	Russia suffering its biggest death toll from a single Ukrainian strike since the war began.
2:49.6	It happened on New Year's Day and it was a building a school holding a group of soldiers and we are hearing they were mostly newly mobilized soldiers.
2:58.6	It was hit by four Ukrainian missiles.
3:01.6	Olga Sheena is from the BBC's Russia service. She's a friend of the pod. Olga, hello. Happy New Year.
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