The Russian Fighting For Ukraine
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Why one man says he’s turned his back on Moscow to fight with Ukraine.
We speak to "Apostle", a member of the Liberty of Russia Legion, one of the groups reportedly responsible for the cross-border raids in the Russian city of Belgorod earlier this year.
The FT’s Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller is in the studio to discuss his new book and reflect on his time in the Pokrovsk, in Ukraine, where at least seven people lost their lives in an overnight attack by Russia.
And BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson talks about why Russians are hunting for cheap flats in the occupied city of Mariupol.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Ivana Davidovic and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Gareth Jones. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham. 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.
TOPICS:
01:54 - Pokrovsk attack 06:00 - Mariupol residents 12:33 - Listener questions 16:30 - Russian fighter
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 531 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.4 | Over the weekend, one of Kiev's iconic landmarks got a makeover. |
| 0:14.5 | Yes, the motherland monument in Kiev is one of the tallest in Europe, |
| 0:18.9 | standing at more than 100 meters tall together with its pedestal. |
| 0:23.0 | It was originally built in 1981 to commemorate the Soviet victory in Second World War. |
| 0:29.8 | It's a figure of a woman with a sword in her right hand, raised hand, |
| 0:35.9 | and a shield in her left hand. |
| 0:37.6 | And that's where problems start, because on that shield was the Soviet coat of arms |
| 0:44.9 | complete with the hammer and sickle and because Ukraine doesn't want anything to do |
| 0:50.6 | with such symbols of Soviet rule, it was removed and replaced with the Ukrainian |
| 0:58.2 | trizup or the trident of the Ukrainian symbol. |
| 1:00.7 | And the works are set to be complete by the 24th of August, Independence Day. |
| 1:07.0 | Also in this episode, we're going to be hearing about the people who are looking for cheap |
| 1:11.5 | flats, cheaper accommodation in the Russian occupied city of Mariupol. |
| 1:16.7 | And we will talk to a Russian man, a Russian citizen who says he has turned his back on his |
| 1:22.8 | country to fight with Ukraine against Russian troops. |
| 1:27.6 | This is Ukraine cost. |
| 1:29.6 | Ukraine cost for business. |
| 1:32.4 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heart-haired and pain. |
| 1:37.0 | Man's of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:40.1 | Putin is the aggressor. |
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