Ukraine: One Year On
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Orla Guerin, senior international correspondent, reports from Ukraine's east, a region she has covered on different trips during the last year, on the permanent sense of danger lingering there, that has become a way of life since the Russian invasion.
Russia Editor, Steve Rosenberg recounts his own feelings of surprise at Vladimir Putin's decision to invade - and how far everyday Russians have swallowed the government propaganda. He explores the motivations as to why this might be.
US Editor, Sarah Smith describes the secrecy surrounding President Joe Biden's surprise visit to Kyiv - and what the political climate is like in Washington amid pledges the US will support the war for 'as long as it takes'.
Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe Correspondent, has followed the story of Ukrainians fleeing the war from the outset of the invasion. She speaks to those who have only recently fled in Poland's east and what prompted their decisions to leave now.
Vitaliy Shevchenko, presenter of Ukrainecast, has lost friends during the conflict. Over the last year, he evacuated his parents from Zaporizhzhia, now controlled by Russians, and also watched a broader shift in Ukraine's standing in the world - and that of its leader.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.0 | Today we look back at events last February, as Western capitals hide a Russian troop |
| 0:10.6 | build up on Ukraine's border, our Russia editor reflects on what followed. |
| 0:16.6 | One and a half million Ukrainian refugees fluttered across the border to Poland after Russia's |
| 0:22.2 | invasion. |
| 0:23.4 | What does life look like now for those that left? |
| 0:27.1 | Made heavy preparations for a trip by US President Joe Biden to Europe this week, we hear how |
| 0:32.6 | American reporters were wrong-footed by his surprise emergence in Kiev. |
| 0:38.2 | And we hear from a Ukrainian journalist about how a phone call turned his world, and those |
| 0:43.9 | of his friends and family upside down. |
| 0:47.3 | First we're in the Donbass region, where nearly ten years ago conflict began with Russia's |
| 0:53.0 | annexation of Crimea. |
| 0:55.4 | During that war Russian proxy forces captured more than a third of Ukraine's east, claiming |
| 1:00.8 | more than 14,000 lives. |
| 1:03.9 | Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in the early hours of the 24th of February last year served |
| 1:10.0 | as a dramatic escalation, targeting the capital city Kiev and unleashing havoc on cities |
| 1:16.6 | across Ukraine. |
| 1:18.6 | A few months into the war, the Russian President set his sights on the more limited declared |
| 1:23.8 | aim of liberating the Donbass, bombarding cities in eastern Ukraine. |
| 1:29.8 | The battle there rages on. |
| 1:32.2 | All a year and was in Donbass at the start of the 2022 invasion, and says the terror of |
| 1:38.1 | those early days has become a way of life for people in the east. |
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