Stories from pro-Russian Ukrainians
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When the Ukrainian army liberated Kherson, not all its residents celebrated. BBC investigative reporter, Tim Whewell, and Ukrainecast producer, Arsenii Sokolov, spoke to the pro-Russians who stayed.
We get a glimpse inside the mind of the Kremlin through the lens of Russian state media, as watched by BBC Monitoring’s Francis Scarr.
And entertainment reporter, Daniel Rosney, talks us through how Ukraine will be choosing its Eurovision act for 2023.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 296 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.9 | And one thing we have talked about as a team is whether or not we are |
| 0:14.7 | properly reflecting what Russian media is saying. |
| 0:18.0 | And there is a guy who works at the BBC whose job literally is each day |
| 0:22.4 | to watch Russian TV and in particular those chat shows which genuinely can give us an insight |
| 0:27.6 | into the mind of people in the Kremlin. |
| 0:48.3 | After I'd finished my studies, the opportunity came up to work for the BBC in Moscow, |
| 0:53.1 | and I grabbed it with both hands. |
| 0:55.3 | And I ended up staying there for almost four years until leaving just after the invasion |
| 1:01.1 | of Ukraine at the end of February. |
| 1:05.3 | What I tried to do, I think, is offer a window into this shocking alternative reality |
| 1:10.9 | of Russian state-controlled media, and judging by the reaction I've had, |
| 1:15.3 | it's something that people do find really fascinating. |
| 1:19.3 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:22.3 | Ukraine cast from BBC News. |
| 1:25.3 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:35.3 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:40.3 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:42.3 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:48.3 | Hello, this is Victoria, and I'm in a car collecting my son from university to bring him home for Christmas. |
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