Summary
Ukrainians, from Kyiv to the UK, answer calls to defend their country. The capital has come under attack, but the residents and their president remain defiant, and Russian forces have so far failed to break through their resistance.
Maxim Karaush was at home with family when their apartment building in Kyiv was hit by a missile. He tells Victoria and Gabriel why, after his wife and son were injured and his home destroyed, he asked to speak to us.
We aim to explain a fast-moving conflict and answer your questions about the war. Vitaly is with us again too, and he's been following a group of Ukrainian men in England as they prepare to return to fight for their homeland.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Daniel Wittenberg and Phil Marzouk. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Ukrainecast. It's day three since Russia invaded Ukraine. And it's Saturday, February the 26th. And today seems to be very much about the resistance, the stand that Ukrainians are making in the face of missile strikes and bombing and shelling |
| 0:24.1 | from President Putin's forces who have invaded their country? |
| 0:29.6 | I think that's right. |
| 0:30.5 | Resistance, Victoria. |
| 0:32.1 | For me, today, just looking at it on social media, it's a tale of two tanks in a way i've got this one |
| 0:40.1 | picture in my mind that i saw where there's a guy who's on his knees in front of a russian |
| 0:47.2 | armored personnel carrier and the armored personnel carrier is getting ready to drive and he nearly |
| 0:52.1 | drives over the guy he just kind of the guy |
| 0:55.0 | scampers away just in time. So that's the advance. And then the other image, the other video, |
| 1:03.6 | is this tank that's broken down by the side of the road and this Ukrainian driving a car |
| 1:10.2 | drives up. And he says, what's wrong with you? If you run out of petrol? And the side of the road. And this Ukrainian driver in a car drives up. And he says, |
| 1:11.6 | what's wrong with you? Have you run out of petrol? And the Russian soldier sort of says, glumly |
| 1:16.7 | says, yeah. And the Ukrainian guy says, where are you going? And the Russian guy goes, don't know. |
| 1:22.1 | And the Ukrainian guy says to him, do you want me to tow you back to Russia? |
| 1:26.1 | Oh my goodness. God. |
| 1:28.9 | I mean, to have the kind of, I don't know what the word is, what is the word when you, is that confidence from that Ukrainian guy? |
| 1:37.6 | Is that I am boldly talking to you because you should not be in my country? |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, it's amazing bravado for sure. |
| 1:46.4 | But it's like this sort of these terrible tragic situations. |
| 1:50.9 | And then they also have these sort of weird comic moments. |
| 1:54.7 | It's incredibly bizarre. |
| 1:56.9 | I was standing in on BBC breakfast this morning |
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