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From Our Own Correspondent

Shock and anger in Eastern Siberia

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ukrainians have mounted a defiant response since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of their country began. But scores of lives have nonetheless been lost. Moscow’s propaganda machine has been in full swing domestically, trying to conceal any Russian casualties from the outside world. Caroline Davies visited went to a village in Eastern Siberia to speak to the families and friends of one of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine – who’s believed to have been captured. Finland once signed a treaty which ensured it would not face a Soviet invasion, providing it stayed out of Nato and gave Moscow to influence its domestic and foreign policy. To date, Finland has remained outside Nato but a debate is now underway as to whether it should eventually join following threats from Vladimir Putin this week. Emilia Jansson reports that attitudes on the ground are beginning to shift. For the majority of those attending the annual Republican Conference in Florida, the crisis in Ukraine was a subject best avoided. Instead, President Joe Biden was cast as their greatest threat. Anthony Zurcher reports on the conference. Thousands of miles off the coast of Chile, sits the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The islanders are eagerly anticipating the return of one of their beloved Moai – figures carved out of rock. It was first brought to Chile in 1870. Jane Chambers has been following the twists and turns of the great home coming of one of them. Copenhagen is home to one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid warehouses. The warehouse can store more than 36 000 pallets of life-saving equipment. It’s sorted and packed by robots, humans and mechanised wheelbarrows. Sandra Kanthal has been to the warehouse, run by Unicef, to meet the people who work there.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.2

Today we're in Finland where an underground network of shopping centres, swimming pools

0:10.1

and sports halls can mutate into a vast bomb shelter should it be needed.

0:16.4

In Florida it's the annual Republican conference known as CPAC where Joe Biden is characterised

0:23.0

as public enemy number one and Russia takes a back seat.

0:28.4

We follow the story of a giant monolithic statue as it's returned to its Pacific island

0:33.4

home from Chile and in Copenhagen we visit a humanitarian aid warehouse, thrumming

0:40.5

with robotic cranes, forklift trucks and on occasion dancing feet.

0:46.2

First, Ukrainians have mounted a defiant response since President Vladimir Putin's invasion

0:52.6

of their country began one week ago, but scores of lives have nonetheless been lost as

0:59.0

Russians have pounded the cities of Khacheev and Mariupol.

1:03.8

The assault on the capital Kiev intensifies and Moscow's propaganda machine has been

1:09.2

in full swing domestically, calling the invasion a special mission and trying to conceal

1:15.8

any Russian casualties from the outside world.

1:19.1

But videos claiming to show captured Russian soldiers have been circulating online.

1:24.7

Caroline Davis went to a village in eastern Siberia to speak to the families and friends

1:30.7

of one of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine who's been captured.

1:36.0

Still and silent, the only noise as we drive through the white plains of Siberia is the

1:41.4

sound of our car engine.

1:43.2

The odd bare branches of shrubs scratch through the snow, dark patches of forest and the odd

1:48.5

power-master, the only mark on the black and white landscape we feel a long way from

1:53.1

the Ukrainian border.

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