Ukraine’s War Diaries
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Lives upended by war. As the conflict enters its second year, we hear stories of some of the lives transformed by war. Maria Drovnenkova, from the BBC's Panorama, tells Victoria and Vitaliy about the Ukrainians whose video diaries captured the first year of the war. We receive an update from 20-year-old student Maksym Lutsyk, who is now serving in Ukraine’s armed forces on the frontline in the east. And Francis Scarr, from BBC Monitoring, joins us in the studio to tell us how the anniversary of the conflict was viewed in Russia last week. 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
Today’s episode is hosted by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko. This episode was made by Luke Radcliff with Arsenii Sokolov and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 370 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.0 | It's now more than one year since Russia's full scale invasion began. |
| 0:15.0 | One year of war, one year of shattered lives, one year of destruction. |
| 0:20.0 | And last week we brought you a programme each day to mark that one year anniversary. |
| 0:25.0 | And I just want to take our listeners back to a moment that has really stayed with us from Friday's episode. |
| 0:32.0 | When we invited more than 100 Ukrainians to the radio theatre here at BBC Broadcasting House. |
| 0:39.0 | And they were mostly women and girls who have been displaced by the war |
| 0:44.0 | and have come to the UK to seek refuge, essentially, having left dads and husbands and brothers and sons behind. |
| 0:52.0 | And at the end of the show we played a montage of scenes around the world |
| 0:58.0 | of people paying their respects and laying flowers and holding a minute silence. |
| 1:03.0 | And in that radio theatre, we witnessed a really powerful moment. |
| 1:07.0 | The audience stood up, placed their hands across their hearts and sang along with the national anthem. |
| 1:20.0 | And it took me a few moments, Vitaly, to work out what was going on. |
| 1:25.0 | And then obviously it was clear that people were singing the national anthem. |
| 1:30.0 | And people had tears in their eyes and people were wiping away tears from their faces. |
| 1:35.0 | And it absolutely drove home, if we needed it at all to drive home. |
| 1:41.0 | The deep impact this war has had on the lives of normal people. |
| 1:46.0 | And we received these messages from two members of the audience. |
| 1:50.0 | It just felt so touching and so heartwarming to stand up for it. |
| 1:57.0 | I mean, I just want to watch the video and then I saw people getting up |
| 2:00.0 | and I wasn't sure if that was planned like that. And I just didn't get the memo. |
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