Two Years On: What can the UN do?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
For this special episode, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, tells us what it was like sitting at the UN table as news of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine broke.
He also talks to Victoria and Vitaly about how much power the UN has, whether it can stop the war and if accusations that it’s just a ‘talking shop’ hold any weight.
They also look to the future and how peace might be achieved.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producer was Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Lucy Boast. 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. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's 728 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.7 | And as we approached the second year mark, we wanted to speak to some of the people who have been involved in the decisions that have been made about this war. |
| 0:19.0 | And recently we spoke to Serajika Slicia, who is Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations. |
| 0:26.7 | And when the full-scale invasion broke out, he was there in New York sitting at the UN table opposite his Russian counterpart. |
| 0:38.3 | Back when we started the Ukraine cast, everything seemed so unreal I couldn't really believe what was happening |
| 0:46.4 | I I know it wasn't exactly a big surprise because there had been warnings but being woken up at 5 in the morning by a phone call telling |
| 0:57.6 | you that your home city is being bombed and buildings are shaking, that felt just surreal and tragic in equal measure. |
| 1:09.2 | And I remember the lines and lines and cues and cues of cars trying to get out of Kieve on that morning in the early hours. |
| 1:19.0 | Building up driving west mostly, weren't they? |
| 1:22.0 | People just packing as much as they could into their |
| 1:25.5 | vehicles and getting out because their capital city was being bombed. |
| 1:29.7 | People in Kiev and other cities using their cars, trains, whatever they could. |
| 1:35.9 | Some made it, some didn't. |
| 1:38.9 | How did it look from the United Nations? |
| 1:41.0 | Here's our interview with Ukraine's ambassador to the UN. This is |
| 1:44.9 | Ukraine cast. Ukraine cast from BBC News. Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable |
| 1:52.0 | heart rage and pain. |
| 1:54.0 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:57.0 | Putin is the aggressor. |
| 1:59.0 | He will be ready to use nuclear weapons. |
| 2:02.0 | They killed him and fled. ready to use nuclear weapons. |
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