Two Years On: The Global Story
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year.
This is today's episode from The Global Story, and we thought you might want to listen to it.
A surgeon in a wheelchair, an indomitable grandmother, and a man taking care of eight cats in a bombed-out flat: just some of people the BBC’s Andrew Harding has met on repeat trips to Ukraine’s front lines. He and the BBC’s Olga Robinson, who has family in Russia and Ukraine, talk to Katya Adler about the power of individual stories, two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 732 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:12.0 | Every day this week we've brought you episodes to mark |
| 0:15.3 | two years of this conflict. Today you'll hear an episode from our sister podcast, The Global |
| 0:22.4 | Story, hosted by Katya Adler. |
| 0:25.3 | With the war entering its third year, she hears from BBC Correspondence about the ordinary people |
| 0:31.2 | they've spoken to who have been caught up in the war, |
| 0:34.0 | as well as the tools journalists use to establish the facts in the heat of battle. |
| 0:40.4 | This is Ukrainecast. |
| 0:45.0 | Ukraine Cast from BBC News. Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heart rage and pain. |
| 0:50.0 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 0:53.2 | Putin is the aggressor. |
| 0:55.2 | He will be ready to use nuclear weapons. |
| 0:58.8 | They killed him and fled. |
| 1:00.5 | I did not know how we manage to survive. |
| 1:04.0 | I want people to know the truth. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello, I'm Katia Adler. |
| 1:09.0 | From the BBC World Service, this is the Global Story. |
| 1:16.8 | Monday to Friday we focus on one story in detail with the help of the BBC's best journalists. Today Ukraine is about to mark a grim milestone |
| 1:28.0 | two years since Russia's full scale invasion. |
| 1:39.0 | It's thought to have killed and injured around 500,000 troops and another 30,000 civilians. |
| 1:40.8 | Russia's violent attempt to redraw the map has reshaped politics as well and |
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