Russian Soldiers Resign
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Stories from the front line.
The BBC's Fergal Keane and Olga Ivshina hear from Russian soldiers who have risked their lives on the front line of the war. Why have some of them refused to return?
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen speaks to us from a Donbas town which is within artillery range of Russian troops.
And Rustik, Fergal’s fixer in Bucha, discusses his first experience of conflict and how his country is changing.
Today’s Ukrainecast was made by Osman Iqbal and Natalie Ktena. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
Both Sergey and Marina are voiced by actors.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 93 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.5 | Now, some listeners might remember that earlier this week we spoke to Marina of Sianakova, |
| 0:15.0 | her former editor of Channel One on Russian State TV, who in the early stages of the war |
| 0:21.3 | ran onto the set of a live news program, dramatically waving a poster in protest against |
| 0:28.0 | the war. |
| 0:31.5 | What's interesting after that, another Russian correspondent, Jean Nagalakova, so someone |
| 0:37.9 | viewers were able to see for almost two decades she attended her resignation and she denounced |
| 0:46.1 | the war and the Russian government and now she is in Europe and she talks to the press. |
| 0:52.2 | And David Grossman, the US correspondent of the BBC's News Night program on television, |
| 1:05.8 | he's been speaking to her. |
| 1:06.8 | It's like you're living two worlds. |
| 1:09.7 | Even now when you're watching news in Russia, sometimes I do it, it's like two different |
| 1:16.4 | planets. |
| 1:18.0 | In one planet there is ruins and total disaster, death and tragedy in another world. |
| 1:27.2 | It's a Russian militaries that was cheered by local population with flowers and this |
| 1:35.1 | is only victories and there is only something positive and great. |
| 1:40.7 | In this two worlds, don't mix up. |
| 1:44.5 | And it's blow my mind, how they do it. |
| 1:48.8 | This is incredible. |
| 1:51.0 | How the brain washed their population. |
| 1:54.3 | We've heard a lot about Russian propaganda messages, state TV, I myself had to watch |
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