The 4-year-old girl all alone
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Security correspondent Frank Gardner joins Victoria and Vitaliy to give us the latest updates from the eastern front and how European nations are responding to the continuing war.
We hear the story of Alice: the four-year-old girl who escaped Azovstal but lost her mother in the process. Those looking after her say her mother has been taken to Russia.
Also, we catch up with the Russian TV news editor, Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested the war live on air back in March becoming a symbol Russian anti-war sentiment and an exile in the process.
Today’s Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Phil Marzouk, Osman Iqbal and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
You can email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments or send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 1234 220.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | It's been 90 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.5 | Yes, exactly three months since this war started. |
| 0:13.6 | And according to the latest estimates, |
| 0:15.4 | Russia now occupies 20% of Ukraine's territory. |
| 0:20.4 | Before the invasion on the 23rd of February, |
| 0:23.2 | it was 7%. |
| 0:25.4 | And yesterday, a Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev |
| 0:28.4 | resigned over the Ukraine war. |
| 0:30.6 | And the BBC's Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, spoke to him. |
| 0:34.3 | I strongly disagree and disapprove of what my government is doing |
| 0:40.2 | and has been doing the least since February. |
| 0:43.5 | And I don't want to be associated with it any longer. |
| 0:47.8 | It was not a decision like to do or not to do. |
| 0:51.3 | It was just to do and when. |
| 0:54.5 | So I don't see any alternative. |
| 0:57.9 | It's quite brave of him to speak out like that. |
| 0:59.8 | Identity we should overread this. |
| 1:01.5 | This is one person that may well be others who think like that. |
| 1:05.4 | Is this going to set off a chain reaction? |
| 1:07.9 | I doubt at least not in a way that's going to threaten President Putin. |
| 1:12.1 | A very interesting development, very rare development, |
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