Ukraine war stories

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How would you cope it you were at the centre of a war? In March 2022, the BBC told the stories of four young women whose lives were changed forever by war in Ukraine. They were not soldiers, activists or politicians. They were civilians, not used to war or how to deal with it. They kept audio diaries that told a raw truth about loss, hope and even love. Some packed up and left with their children while others remained in the eye of the storm. Among them, a language teacher in Kyiv called Alexandra who did not know if her parents were still alive in the besieged city of Mariupol. Mari, a model and dancer, who was caught up in shelling in Chernihiv. And Yulia, who gave birth as bombs rained down on Kharkhiv. But what’s happened to them since? Assignment tries to trace them, to discover how their lives have changed in four months of war. (Photo Credit: Mari Margun)

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0:00.0	Since the start of the war in Ukraine, four young women have been recording their innermost
0:12.3	thoughts for us as Russian troops surround their towns and cities.
0:17.4	They're not soldiers, activists or politicians.
0:21.7	They're civilians like you and I.
0:24.3	People are used to war or how to deal with it.
0:28.0	You will hear now the bomb again.
0:30.9	You see this flash and the sound will come like a blade play.
0:35.4	So it's been a... oh my god, it's not in the sea.
0:41.3	Oh my god, oh my god.
0:44.4	Crazy.
0:47.2	That's Marie, a model and dancer from Cherneheave in northern Ukraine.
0:53.1	She was in the city when the siege by Russian troops began.
0:57.2	Marie fled to the Carpathian Mountains while her mother stayed behind.
1:05.1	We had two women in the besieged frontline city of Harkiv in the east of the country.
1:12.1	Marina, who'd traveled from her home in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland to visit her mother.
1:18.8	Oh my god, it can be you.
1:23.0	It can be anybody like you're trying to get to the railway station and your car is hit on the way.
1:30.8	And Julia, who is nine months pregnant and ended up having a cesarean section
1:37.7	in Harkiv's main hospital as the bombs rain down.
1:42.8	They say that they need to do it fast because the situation is getting worse
1:47.7	and the electricity may be turned off all the way into middle of Cherneheave.
1:53.2	Finally, Alexandra, an English teacher whose parents are stuck in the besieged port of Maryu Paul.
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