The Mayor of Bucha
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Reflections on the horrors inflicted on the people of his city...
After weeks of reports of Russian atrocities in the region surrounding Kyiv, the mayor of Bucha speaks to us and asks: “Why did they do this to us?”
You may remember Sasha Makoviy, the mother who wrote pertinent information and contact details on the back of her two-year-old daughter in case the worst happened. We hear the latest.
And we also speak to director of the Maidan museum in Kyiv who is striving to ensure the country’s artefacts are kept safe.
Today's episode was made by Chris Flynn and Phil Marzouk. The technical director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editors were Sam Bonham and Alison Gee.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 48 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.2 | It was just over a week ago on the podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | We talked about the photograph of a two-year-old Ukrainian girl |
| 0:16.9 | that had gone viral. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah, I mean, it was gone everywhere now, hasn't it? |
| 0:21.1 | I mean, that has become actually one of the real sort |
| 0:23.6 | of iconic images of this war, if that's the right word. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:27.0 | And just remind us what was on that place. |
| 0:29.4 | You can see you're written on her back in bluing her name, |
| 0:33.2 | Vera Markovie, some phone numbers on her date of birth, |
| 0:36.2 | the 10th of November 2019, in case anything was happened to her |
| 0:40.4 | and she needed to, you know, people needed to identify |
| 0:43.0 | who she was. |
| 0:43.9 | In case she got separated from her parents |
| 0:46.7 | or her parents got killed. |
| 0:48.7 | You see that all the time when these sort of like refugee trains |
| 0:50.7 | and things like that, always, always just sort of kids |
| 0:53.4 | getting separated from their parents and shouts and everything |
| 0:55.6 | like that. |
| 0:56.4 | Well, on Monday, Vera's mother, Sasha, |
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