The Ukraine Dam Disaster: Four Weeks On
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Assessing the damage caused by the Kherson floods.
The BBC’s Andrew Harding updates us on the environmental, social and emotional impact caused by the Kakhovka dam breach, and we catch up again with Kherson resident Olga.
Also, we find out more about the attack on independent Russian journalist Elena Milashina in Chechnya, who appeared on last week’s Ukrainecast, with the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford and Tanya Lokshina from Human Rights Watch.
Today’s episode is presented by Lucy Hockings and Vitaliy Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is 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.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 496 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.3 | And Lucy has been a while since you've been on Ukraine cast. |
| 0:13.3 | A lot has happened, hasn't it? |
| 0:15.4 | Oh, Vitaly is so much. |
| 0:16.9 | When I think back to the monumental catastrophe of the Kakovka Dam, |
| 0:22.0 | that level of destruction, it was so completely staggering |
| 0:24.9 | and then hearing people's experiences. |
| 0:27.2 | Marig, Marig, Marig, Marig. |
| 0:31.9 | Then these satellite pictures that we've had |
| 0:33.7 | of the much-promised offensive finally starting |
| 0:37.0 | and you can kind of see the tiny gains |
| 0:39.1 | that are being made by Ukrainian forces all in the past month. |
| 0:43.2 | But then, I think for Tully the thing that's really flawed me, |
| 0:46.4 | the image that's stayed with me over the past week or so, |
| 0:50.4 | is of those two 14-year-old twins, Anna and Julia, |
| 0:53.6 | they were killed in Kremetorsk. |
| 0:55.9 | They were right by that pizzeria. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm sure you've seen the photo of them. |
| 0:59.8 | And then I saw a picture of their mum and she was at the funeral. |
| 1:07.5 | Vitaly, she could scarcely walk. |
| 1:09.4 | She was so completely incapacitated and weighed down by her grief. |
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