Shot in front of his son
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Victoria, Vitaly and Frank Gardner speak to Olga Malchevska, and hear her interviews with victims of suspected war crimes.
15-year-old Yuriy describes how his father was killed in front of him and a bullet missed his own head by inches.
Also, Serhiy Dibrov, deputy editor of the Odesa newspaper, Dumskaya, is on the podcast after bombing in the city.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn and Osman Iqbal. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. 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 to +44 0330 1234 220.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 76 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:11.0 | And we're going to hear from a teenage boy now, he's 15. |
| 0:15.7 | And he talks about his dad being shot dead. |
| 0:20.1 | It is brutal and it is graphic. |
| 0:22.7 | We went to Spain, so he asked me where I was going. |
| 0:31.1 | We got off our bicycles. |
| 0:32.9 | He asked in Russian, where are you going? |
| 0:35.5 | My dad said we were going to buy some food. |
| 0:38.3 | My father started to turn to me with his hands up, I heard two shots. |
| 0:43.4 | The Russian soldier shot my left hand, which I kept up. |
| 0:46.8 | When I fell down, I saw my dead line dead already bleeding. |
| 0:50.8 | I asked if I can approach my father. |
| 0:53.2 | He shot again twice into my head and into my father's. |
| 0:56.9 | But I had a hood and there was a space between it and my head. |
| 1:00.6 | So the bullet went through. |
| 1:02.3 | I can't bear it. |
| 1:08.2 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:09.5 | I mean his dad is lying dead next to him. |
| 1:12.2 | And the person who spoke in Russian intended to kill the boy as well. |
| 1:16.7 | Even though they had their hands up in there. |
| 1:20.1 | This is Ukraine cast. |
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