The convoy advances
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As violence looks set to escalate in Kyiv, Victoria, Gabriel and Vitaliy talk through how the conflict is unfolding across Ukraine.
Dr Andrey Vysotskyi from Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv describes how two children were brought in with injuries today sustained in an air strike which killed their mum, while children with cancer are being cared for in the basement.
Newsnight’s diplomatic editor Mark Urban joins us to explain what the convoy approaching Kyiv tells us about Putin's latest military strategy.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn, Molly Grace Lynch and Natalie Ktena. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's six days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the image of the day is the |
| 0:13.4 | satellite imagery of this huge 40-mile, 60-kilometer-long Russian convoy heading towards the capital |
| 0:23.9 | Kiev. The convoy involves tanks with hold, logistics vehicles, armoured vehicles. It is huge |
| 0:32.5 | and I just, I mean, we'll find that extraordinary picture. It's unbelievable. And if you're |
| 0:38.9 | in the capital and you see that heading towards you, I mean, you know, people have talked |
| 0:43.7 | to me this morning about the feelings of dread and fear and just horror. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, it's a massive statement of intent. You're thinking about facing that. For me, |
| 0:55.3 | Vic, one clip really sums up where we are big picture in this whole conflict. And it's |
| 1:03.1 | from Warsaw. Boris Johnson is there and there's a Ukrainian journalist and she's asking him |
| 1:10.7 | a question and she just lets rib. |
| 1:15.8 | Britain guaranteed our security under Budapest memorandum. So you're coming to Poland. You're |
| 1:21.1 | not coming to Kiev, Prime Minister, because you are afraid, because NATO is not willing to defend, |
| 1:27.5 | because NATO is afraid of the World War Three, but it is already started. And this is Ukrainian |
| 1:31.9 | children who are there taking the hit. You're talking about more sanctions, Prime Minister, |
| 1:36.9 | but Romana Bramovic is not sanctioned. He's in London. His children are not in the bombardments. |
| 1:42.7 | His children are there in London. But his children are in Netherlands, in Germany, |
| 1:50.4 | in mansions, where all these mansions seized. I don't see that. I see that by family members, |
| 1:57.8 | that my team members are saying that we are crying. We don't care where to rob. |
| 2:03.5 | This is what is happening, Prime Minister. |
| 2:06.0 | This is the terrible dilemma facing anyone who wants to defend Ukraine, because |
| 2:14.7 | she's right. Ukrainians are paying the price, but from the perspective of NATO, of Britain, |
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