Summary
The EU plans a total ban on Russian oil imports by the end of the year, among other new proposed sanctions designed to make Russia pay a high price for aggression. Victoria and Vitaly speak to the economist Timothy Ash about how reliant Europe’s energy supply is on Russia and how much longer President Putin can afford his war bill. We also hear from the BBC Ukrainian Service’s Anastasia Gribanova, who’s in Lviv, where Russian missiles have hit targets in an attempt to disrupt the railway network in western Ukraine. This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Osman Iqbal and Chris Flynn. The technical producer was 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 70 days, 70 days, |
| 0:09.6 | since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:12.9 | And let's update you on the situation in Mariupol. |
| 0:16.3 | Yes, yesterday we heard that a group of refugees |
| 0:20.2 | from Mariupol have made it to safety in Zaporizhia. |
| 0:24.4 | The shelling, it seems, at the still works, is continuing. |
| 0:32.8 | Yes, it has resumed according to reports, |
| 0:38.2 | which we started to receive towards the evening yesterday. |
| 0:42.6 | And what really gets me are the stories that we've been hearing |
| 0:46.6 | from children coming from places like Mariupol. |
| 0:51.9 | I saw one of those children talk to Ukrainian TV earlier. |
| 0:56.9 | He described the sound of missiles flying above where he was sheltering. |
| 1:03.7 | He said it was a swoosh, and then there's a bang. |
| 1:09.3 | And he said it was really terrifying. |
| 1:12.0 | And the way he looked, he looked very grown up and serious. |
| 1:17.9 | And I thought that's no way for a child to look. |
| 1:21.8 | And we think there are about 500 also people still inside the complex. |
| 1:29.0 | Some we know are injured. |
| 1:32.4 | One of those still inside is Mikhailov Vashinin, |
| 1:36.9 | and he described the conditions in the still works |
| 1:39.8 | to BBC Radio Force today, programme. |
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