Ukrainian students
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We bring together three Ukrainian students, who studied at different universities in Kyiv before the war, to hear about how they are continuing their education. One decided the solution was to do her exchange year abroad early, but the others have remained in the country and it’s not always easy to study. Plus, three Ukrainian women come together to share their stories of leaving their homes with young children. Single parent Sonia is now in Portugal with her daughter, after driving across multiple countries. Marharya is living in Switzerland with three children while her husband remains in Ukraine. Sonia has also remained in Ukraine but moved to a potentially safer area with her husband’s relatives and their daughter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there, I'm Ben James on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS Conversations Ukrainian Students. |
| 0:11.8 | We'll hear from those who are determined to continue their education despite the war |
| 0:16.5 | and we'll also bring together mothers who've made the difficult decision to leave their homes |
| 0:20.9 | and travel to a different city or even country with their children. |
| 0:25.1 | Every day we think a return or not a return and we feel a lot of guilty every day because we |
| 0:32.1 | save because we have where to leave and it's very unpleasant. |
| 0:43.2 | Both of those conversations shortly. We also gather messages that people send us and I want to start |
| 0:49.2 | with this one from a student in the hair sun region. It's in the south of Ukraine where there's been |
| 0:54.1 | heavy fighting. Those residents that remain had been under Russian military occupation since early |
| 0:59.8 | March. So let me share this experience from a student who's trying to carry on amid the destruction. |
| 1:06.1 | My name is Anna, I'm 20 years old, I'm a third year student of the Russian |
| 1:09.1 | International University of Kiev. Now I'm in my native town Novakahovka in Kyrsten region |
| 1:15.4 | at the south of Ukraine. We are bordering with Crimea and that is why we're occupied |
| 1:19.2 | within the first several hours of the war and we're still living under the occupation of Russian |
| 1:24.3 | forces. We have problems with mobile communication and sometimes Russian forces can simply cut off |
| 1:31.2 | it and we can't phone anyone and we have problems with internet connection because of all |
| 1:37.6 | internet providers in our town only to us still working and it actually ammiracles that they |
| 1:43.2 | can work now but still I manage to connect to my zoom sessions and do some tasks but also |
| 1:52.0 | sometimes there is electricity cut off and finally sometimes during my zoom sessions I can hear |
| 1:57.6 | the sounds of shalein and sometimes they can be really loud. I can say that we are safe but these |
| 2:04.4 | sounds were really scary during the first days but now we get acquainted to them. Our teachers |
| 2:11.0 | are really kind and understanding they cancelled all deadlines they just say try to do these |
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