'There may be no tomorrow for my friends'
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
As Russia hits the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, Vitaly reflects on the impact the war is having on his home town – and the challenges he faces as a journalist to remain impartial, while his friends suffer and die.
This episode was presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko.
The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The technical producer Dave O’Neill. The editor, Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 225 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and I woke up this morning |
| 0:10.8 | vitally to a message you had just shared on our UkraineCast WhatsApp group. |
| 0:15.9 | And as our listeners will know, you grew up in the city of Zaparizha, and in the message |
| 0:21.4 | that you sent to us all, you wrote, Zaparizha this morning, nothing but residential housing |
| 0:28.2 | in the area and attached were some pictures. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes, this morning saw the worst attack on Zaparizha so far. |
| 0:40.6 | Several residential buildings, old Stalinist, five-story lots of flats got targeted, and some |
| 0:52.3 | of them partially collapsed, and I've seen pictures of Zaparizha with smoke rising from |
| 1:02.1 | different parts of this city. |
| 1:04.7 | It's just devastating. |
| 1:08.0 | This is obviously a really distressing development in the conflict and clearly deeply personal |
| 1:14.2 | to you vitally. |
| 1:15.9 | This is UkraineCast. |
| 1:17.9 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:30.9 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:35.9 | Putin is the aggression. |
| 1:37.9 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:42.9 | Hello, this is Victoria at home. |
| 1:45.9 | This is Vitaly in a car park in Bath, and I just stopped off here on the way from Bristol, |
| 1:52.9 | where I picked up a couple of Ukrainian refugees and the way from Odessa, and we stopped off |
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