The great-grandmother attacked in her own home
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen has been travelling around south-eastern Ukraine, to areas liberated from Russian control. He spoke to Liudmyla, a 75- year-old great-grandmother who was brutally attacked by a soldier in her own home.
As winter approaches, we also hear how hard it is to survive in some places with no running water and energy blackouts. And Alexander Kamyshin, the head of Ukraine’s national rail company, Ukrzaliznytsia, describes how he and his team have been removing mines from tracks.
Ukrainecast is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.
The producers are Clare Williamson, Luke Radcliff and Arsenii Sokolov. The technical producer is Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and 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, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, it's 252 days since Russia began its invasion |
| 0:08.4 | of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.4 | In Russia, President Putin has said that partial mobilization there has now finished. |
| 0:21.9 | And the interesting bit there is that he's saying he is not sure that he needs to issue |
| 0:26.5 | another decree to formally end it. |
| 0:30.7 | And that's important. |
| 0:31.7 | Why? |
| 0:32.7 | Because lawyers in Russia say that this means it can restart any time, any local conscription |
| 0:39.3 | officials can do whatever they want, they can start recruiting people again if they wish |
| 0:45.0 | to do so. |
| 0:46.0 | Now they wanted to recruit essentially another 300,000 people to fight. |
| 0:51.6 | Did they get anywhere near those numbers? |
| 0:53.0 | Do we know? |
| 0:54.0 | We have no idea honestly. |
| 0:57.3 | The Defence Minister said that yes, this is the number they got, but I think it takes |
| 1:00.8 | a certain naivety to take his words at face value. |
| 1:06.0 | But the important point here is that the officials are really worried about discontent |
| 1:13.5 | within Russia about people being mobilized and they're telling the public in Russia |
| 1:18.0 | look, it's over. |
| 1:19.5 | And though, we're still receiving reports of Russians receiving military summons. |
| 1:25.0 | OK. |
| 1:26.0 | Also on this episode of Ukraine, we're going to hear some of the really brutal experiences |
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