Steelworks Survivors
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
After two months of fighting, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated by Russian forces from Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks.
Victoria, Vitaly and Lyse Doucet speak to Yuriy Sak, an advisor to the Ukrainian defence minister, about what this means for Russia’s war strategy.
They also speak to the BBC’s specialist disinformation reporter, Marianna Spring, about the pregnant woman who was photographed fleeing from Mariupol’s maternity hospital during a Russian airstrike and her fight to prove that she wasn’t an actress taking part in staged images.
We also hear from Vladimir about the field hospital he’s set up with his friends at the war’s Eastern front.
Today's Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk, with Osman Iqbal and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 83 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:08.7 | And today, after weeks of fighting, more than 260 Ukrainian troops are being evacuated |
| 0:14.9 | from the steelworks in Maryupol by Russians to Russian control territory. |
| 0:20.9 | And in footage filmed by the BBC, what we have seen is one small-ish coach which has the |
| 0:29.6 | letter Z taped on either side and on the back of the coach, clearly signifying that it |
| 0:36.3 | is a Russian coach. |
| 0:39.0 | It is being driven late at night and the footage inside the coach shows what appear to be |
| 0:45.5 | I would have thought injured Ukrainian soldiers lying on beds. |
| 0:50.1 | And grimy windows really adding to the sense of dread. |
| 0:57.0 | Russian officials and the media are celebrating this as a major victory and a surrender by |
| 1:03.7 | the Ukrainian defenders. |
| 1:05.6 | But the Ukrainian military are saying they're hopeful that the defenders of Asavstal will |
| 1:12.2 | be exchanged for Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine. |
| 1:17.8 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:20.1 | Ukraine costs for business. |
| 1:22.7 | This is the question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm ordering the Minister of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:32.8 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:37.6 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:39.7 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:45.0 | Hello, this is Victoria in the Ukraine Castudio in London. |
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