Russia makes claims, Ukraine makes gains
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
While the Russian parliament proudly voted through its disputed annexations, the Ukrainian counter-offensive has been continuing, including the symbolic recapturing of the key eastern town of Lyman.
The BBC’s defence correspondent Jonathan Beale, who’s just returned to the frontline in the Donbas, gives us his verdict on another dramatic turn of events in the country. Russian political scientist and anti-war campaigner Grigory Yudin talks to us from Moscow and explains what impact the military developments are having on public opinion there. And the BBC’s Ruth Clegg updates us on her investigation into the lives of disabled people in Ukraine after she was invited to give evidence at the United Nations in Geneva. This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Ivana Davidovic, Louise Hidalgo and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 222 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.8 | And three days after Russia's annexation of those four Ukrainian provinces, we saw quite |
| 0:17.4 | a big moment in Ukraine's counteroffensive because there had been all this intense fighting |
| 0:22.2 | over the past few weeks and it felt a bit like nothing much was changing that they would |
| 0:26.6 | bog down. |
| 0:29.0 | Until over the weekend, there was this symbolic and strategic success. |
| 0:34.3 | In one of these areas that Russia said they were annexing, we saw Ukrainian forces take |
| 0:39.7 | the key eastern town of Lehman. |
| 0:43.3 | And there was a huge amount of celebration on social media on lots of platforms, video |
| 0:51.4 | footage showing Ukrainian soldiers raising the national flag on the Artskirts of town |
| 0:56.6 | celebrating and cheering while burning the Russian flag. |
| 1:05.4 | So on today's podcast, we're going to be getting the very latest from on the ground in terms |
| 1:10.4 | of the Ukrainian offensive and asking how those troops are managing to have such success |
| 1:16.6 | and whether or not that success is being reflected at all inside Russia. |
| 1:23.6 | This is Ukraine's cast. |
| 1:26.2 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:32.2 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:38.2 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:43.2 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:45.2 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:50.2 | Hello, this is Lucy in the Ukraine cast studio in London. |
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