Special: Global News Ukrainecast part 2
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
A month since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are collaborating with Ukrainecast again. We answer more of your questions.
Jackie Leonard, presenter of the Global News Podcast, alongside Gabriel Gatehouse and Vitaliy Shevchenko from Ukrainecast, guide us through questions about civilian life in the country, military tactics, and the international response to the invasion.
BBC chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, joins us from Kyiv to talk through what is happening on the ground there, and BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, tells us the latest on the physical and information war.
This episode was made by Chris Flynn. The studio director was Ash Taylor. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a month since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:02.8 | This is another global news podcast, Ukrainecast collaboration from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Jackie Leonard and on the 23rd of March 2022, we are joined by Gabriel Gatehouse |
| 0:18.1 | and Vitaly Shchevchenko of the Ukrainecast team, as well as Lee's do set, are correspondent |
| 0:23.2 | in Kiev, who has been there throughout, and are security correspondent Frank Gardner. |
| 0:28.2 | They will be answering your questions about what's happening in Ukraine and why and about |
| 0:32.7 | how the world is reacting. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello, this is Gabriel in the studio in London. |
| 0:40.8 | And it's Vitaly in the studio too? |
| 0:42.3 | And hello, I'm Jackie Leonard and I'm in the studio in London as well. |
| 0:45.2 | Welcome to another Ukrainecast special collaborating with the Global News Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Well, the last time we got together like this was just over two weeks ago, and you answered |
| 0:55.2 | our listeners questions about the origins of the war, the risk of nuclear conflagration, |
| 1:01.5 | the efficacy of sanctions, and the importance of China among other things. |
| 1:05.4 | And at that point, the number that had left Ukraine stood at just over two million. |
| 1:10.0 | It appeared that Hassan was the only city that had been taken by Russia. |
| 1:14.2 | So just take us through the developments that there have been since then. |
| 1:17.8 | I suppose the big picture, the main thing is that the Russian tactics have completely |
| 1:26.6 | changed from this idea that they were going to do a surgical strike, take over the government |
| 1:31.6 | topple President Zelensky and be done with this in short order. |
| 1:36.6 | And they have now moved to tactics which basically consist of bombing, surrounding, pummeling |
| 1:45.8 | from the air and with artillery blocking access to food and water. |
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