The newborn baby killed by a missile
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A baby boy has died after a missile hit a hospital maternity ward just two days after he was born. Before the attack, Victoria interviewed the Russian ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin and asked him about the killing of civilians and war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Also, BBC correspondent James Waterhouse has been meeting the people rebuilding the country’s bombed-out infrastructure. And friend of the pod, Olga Ivshina from the BBC Russian service, tells us how Russian men have been resisting mobilisation.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko.
The producers were Fiona Leach, Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical coordinator was Emma Crowe. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 273 days since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.0 | A two-day-old baby has been killed in a missile strike that hit a maternity ward. |
| 0:20.0 | The ward is part of a hospital in the town of Vilniansk, |
| 0:23.0 | which is northeast of the city of Zaporizia, |
| 0:26.0 | and it's very close to the frontline. |
| 0:29.0 | The emergency services said there was only one woman there at the time with her newborn. |
| 0:34.0 | She was rescued from the rubble. |
| 0:37.0 | Her son tragically did not survive, and Ligia Bauer is a local volunteer. |
| 0:44.0 | He was born only two days ago, |
| 0:47.0 | and his mother, they say that she's in shock and she was sent home. |
| 0:52.0 | Two doctors were saved, but one of them in critical conditions |
| 0:57.0 | is now with burns below his body. |
| 1:00.0 | Doctors are fighting for his life. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, in today's podcast, we're going to bring you some of an interview |
| 1:06.0 | that I did with the Russian ambassador to the UK, |
| 1:09.0 | where I asked him about the killing of civilians in Ukraine, |
| 1:13.0 | and whether he accepted that Russian soldiers had been committing war crimes. |
| 1:19.0 | Also, we'll be hearing about how Ukrainians are trying to repair their infrastructure |
| 1:24.0 | as winter sets in. |
| 1:27.0 | And as we're recording this, we're getting breaking news reports |
| 1:30.0 | of another massive missile strike targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure. |
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