Summary
Victoria and Vitaly speak to Sarah Rainsford who tells us about a facility in Bucha that was once a children’s summer camp but has now become a crime scene after the torture and execution of five men there.
We hear from NGO worker Oksana who, until recently, was living under Russian occupation in Kherson. She tells us about her colleagues who’ve been abducted.
And NATO Ukraine officer and associate fellow at Chatham House Sam de Bendern talks through the pushback in Kharkiv and the implications of Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
Today's Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk, with Osman Iqbal and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 82 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.4 | And since February the 24th, |
| 0:12.3 | Butcher, on the outskirts of Kiev, |
| 0:14.1 | is somewhere that has come up again and again. |
| 0:17.7 | And it's usually because of alleged war crimes committed |
| 0:20.8 | by Russian soldiers against, in most cases, |
| 0:24.4 | unarmed men, women and children. |
| 0:26.9 | Today, there's more evidence of atrocities. |
| 0:29.8 | This time, at a former children's summer camp, |
| 0:33.9 | used as an execution ground by Russian soldiers |
| 0:37.8 | and now being treated as a crime scene. |
| 0:40.7 | On March the 8th, we spoke, |
| 0:44.0 | and I told him we were nearly safe in Western Ukraine. |
| 0:48.3 | And he said, |
| 0:49.3 | that's great because you need to save the children. |
| 0:52.4 | Don't worry about me. |
| 0:54.6 | He told me, I really love you. |
| 0:56.7 | And it hurts so much to hear, |
| 0:59.1 | because there are fear in his words. |
| 1:01.6 | There's not a lot of soldiers who need to be heard. |
| 1:04.4 | This is Lona Mikityuk, |
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