The trauma of Ukraine's children
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Grief, trauma and poverty have become the norm for millions of Ukrainian children after a year of war. James Elder of Unicef has just returned from Lviv and says that the situation is going from bad to worse. And BBC Newsround’s Ricky Boleto tells us about the courage of Ukrainian children who are determined to continue their studies despite the war.
We also get an update from Frank Gardner, the BBC security correspondent, on the situation in Bakhmut and how the war in Ukraine overshadowed talks at the G20 summit of world leaders.
This episode was made by Clare Williamson with Luke Radcliff and Natasha Fernandes. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | It's 373 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:11.7 | And there have been some really unusual, slash weird reports on Russian news outlets |
| 0:18.2 | about apparently a group of Ukrainian nationalists allegedly crossing the border into Russia |
| 0:25.2 | and occupying a Russian village in the Briansk region. |
| 0:34.6 | This is how the situation was covered by Russian state media on Thursday. |
| 0:41.2 | It all started with a torrent of reports claiming that a group of up to 50 Ukrainian subversives |
| 0:49.0 | were rampaging through two Russian villages, actually, and taking hostages, attacking civilians, |
| 0:57.6 | even a school bus was allegedly shot at. |
| 1:00.9 | And then the narrative changed. |
| 1:02.3 | It was just one car that was attacked. |
| 1:04.7 | And then Russian media said it was two cars, two people dead. |
| 1:08.9 | And then a Russian opposition group, calling itself the Russian volunteer corps based in Ukraine, |
| 1:16.8 | said it was them. |
| 1:18.6 | In the video, we see two men, one of whom is heavily armed, saying that they've not come to Russia to kill people, |
| 1:32.9 | but to encourage Russians to rebel against their government. |
| 1:38.2 | And that was a video that they posted on their telegram channel, wasn't it? |
| 1:41.7 | And then we heard from President Putin who said that Russia had been hit by a terrorist attack, |
| 1:48.2 | and he put the blame firmly on Ukraine. |
| 1:55.2 | Today, another terrorist attack was committed. |
| 1:57.8 | Another crime, they penetrated into the border territory and opened it fire on civilians. |
| 2:03.5 | They saw that it was a civilian car. |
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