Summary
Imane Saaudun, the sister of captured Moroccan fighter Brahim Saaudun tells us why she feels her own country has betrayed her brother.
A Russian exclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania called Kaliningrad has become the latest focus in the Ukraine war. Victoria and Vitaly find out why from the BBC’s European editor, Katya Adler.
Sarah Ashton-Cirillo is an American war reporter based in Kharkiv. She talks to us about her fight for credibility as a trans woman and life on the front line.
And former DJ turned BBC fixer, Vlad Fisun gives us the lowdown on Ukrainian music.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Osman Iqbal, Arsenii Sokolov and Clare Williamson. The planning producer is Louise Hidalgo. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 0330 1239480.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 119 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. |
| 0:10.7 | And eight to one years ago, on this very day, the 22nd of June 1941, the Soviet people |
| 0:17.9 | learned of the Nazi invasion via a radio broadcast. |
| 0:22.9 | The voice of Yuri Levitan, the famous wartime newsreader and announcer in the Soviet Union, |
| 0:43.9 | saying that the USSR had been invaded. |
| 0:49.9 | And this anniversary really matters now. |
| 0:52.9 | It's very relevant because both sides, both Russia and Ukraine, accuse each other of being modern-day Nazis. |
| 1:01.9 | In Russia, the message today, they are celebrating, they're marking this anniversary. |
| 1:06.9 | And the message is that we need to finish the job that was started eight to one years ago. |
| 1:10.9 | We need to free Ukrainians from the new Nazis and so on and so forth. |
| 1:15.9 | In Ukraine, they call the invading Russian troops russists, which is a combination of Russia and fascists. |
| 1:22.9 | And they call President Putin Putin a combination of Putin and Hitler. |
| 1:27.9 | But the literal translation of what Yuri Levitan was saying is this. |
| 1:32.9 | Today, at four o'clock in the morning, without presenting any claims, without declaring war, German forces invaded our country. |
| 1:39.9 | Does that remind you of anything? |
| 1:41.9 | Well, it really does. Of course it does. And people are making that comparison, aren't they? |
| 1:45.9 | Between the 22nd of June 1941 and the 24th of February 2022. |
| 1:51.9 | In fact, there's a Twitter account reasonably well known in Russia, which has been tracing events eight to one years ago, |
| 1:59.9 | minute by minute, speaking of how a dictator invaded another country without announcing war, without declaring war. |
| 2:08.9 | And this account apparently has been attacked by bots and trolls, which react to keywords such as unprovoked attack, |
| 2:17.9 | dictator attacking and so on and so forth. |
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