Russia, Iran and Turkey
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As the Russian president meets leaders of Iran and Turkey, the BBC’s former Moscow and diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall takes us through what this tells about Putin's remaining diplomatic friends.
Vitaliy and Victoria catch up with a young soldier we first met in May who is now taking brief respite from fighting on the front lines in the east to visit injured friends in Kyiv.
And we meet some humanitarian aid workers and hear about why they continue to work day-after-day to get Ukrainians to safety.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk, with Ivana Davidovic, Arsenii Sokolov and planning producer Louise Hidalgo. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 147 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.6 | And in Russia, on the leading state-owned TV channel, Russia won. |
| 0:13.6 | They broadcast a pretty startling report. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the voice of a dad whose son was killed in Ukraine. |
| 0:26.5 | And when he died, his family received a payment from the state. |
| 0:34.5 | And the whole point of this report was to show the Russian people the unexpected benefits |
| 0:41.5 | of a family member dying during the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:45.5 | And when the family in this report got the money from the Russian state, |
| 0:48.5 | they said they used it to buy a car in their son's memory. |
| 0:55.5 | This is Ukrainecast. |
| 0:57.5 | Ukrainecast, from these things. |
| 1:00.5 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:10.5 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:15.5 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:17.5 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:22.5 | Hello, it's Victoria in the Ukrainecast studio. |
| 1:24.5 | And it's Vitaly also in the Ukrainecast studio in London. |
| 1:28.5 | And later on in this episode, we're going to hear from Velodimir, a soldier who has been on the podcast before. |
| 1:34.5 | And we're going to catch up with him and see where he is and how he's doing. |
| 1:37.5 | But before that, we're going to start with the summit that took place in Iran on the 19th of July, |
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