The Battle for Kyiv
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine government gives out guns as Russian forces approach... Victoria, Gabriel and Vitaliy talk through how the conflict has unfolded.
Olga Malchevska, from the BBC Ukrainian Service in London, tells of how her family home was targeted, and Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban joins us to explain what's going on with Putin's military strategy. Today's Ukrainecast was produced by Estelle Doyle, Natalie Ktena, Tim Walklate, Phil Marzouk, Sally Abrahams and Molly Lynch. Emma Crowe was the technical producer. Sam Bonham was the assistant editor and Jonathan Aspinwall was the editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, well an awful lot has happened in the past 24 hours |
| 0:08.6 | since episode one of Ukraine cast live on TikTok this morning. |
| 0:13.6 | There was a family in a basement, |
| 0:16.4 | huddled together showing where they were hiding for safety. |
| 0:21.6 | I mean, that's how the day is starting |
| 0:24.9 | and that's using the fastest growing social media platform |
| 0:27.7 | to show the world. |
| 0:29.4 | So on my TikTok, there are school kids waking up saying, |
| 0:32.4 | oh my god, I've been watching TikTok live this family. |
| 0:34.9 | And that, you know, it's brutal, but it's an education. |
| 0:39.9 | Pretty much everyone I know in Kiev, |
| 0:42.3 | if they slept at all, they slept in a basement |
| 0:44.6 | or in the metro. |
| 0:45.8 | And then, you know, this morning we work up to pictures, |
| 0:48.5 | shaky mobile phone footage filmed from the top of tower blocks |
| 0:51.6 | on the outskirts of Kiev, |
| 0:53.3 | of Russian armored vehicles tanks rumbling through |
| 0:58.5 | on the outskirts of the city. |
| 0:59.6 | It feels like it's really moving fast now. |
| 1:02.9 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:06.3 | Ukraine cast from the Muslims. |
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