War Crimes: Opposing Perspectives
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s UK ambassador calls footage a “fabrication”. In a tense BBC News interview, Andrei Kelin claims allegations of war crimes in the town of Bucha are false despite physical evidence, satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s chief prosecutor tells us she’s investigating thousands of cases.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Chris Flynn and Clare Williamson. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 96 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.5 | Can you believe it is nearly a hundred days into this war? |
| 0:13.4 | We thought that today we'd take a step back and talk about the conflict as a whole and |
| 0:17.7 | whether many more Russians could potentially be found guilty of war crimes. |
| 0:22.7 | Over the weekend BBC News has been speaking to two people with opposing responses to the |
| 0:27.2 | allegations of war crimes and the evidence people on the ground, including our journalists, |
| 0:31.5 | have seen. |
| 0:32.5 | Russia's ambassador to the UK and Ukraine's chief prosecutor, you'll hear them in-depth |
| 0:38.5 | on this episode. |
| 0:41.1 | This is Ukraine Cast. |
| 0:43.5 | Ukraine cast for business. |
| 0:47.1 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 0:56.3 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:00.8 | Bruno is the aggressor. |
| 1:02.9 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:08.2 | Hello, it's Adam Fleming, the presenter of Ukraine Cast's sister podcast newscast. |
| 1:13.3 | We bring you the biggest news of the day, every week day, on BBC sounds. |
| 1:17.7 | Now before we get into those interviews I promised, let's remind ourselves of where we are in the war. |
| 1:23.4 | As has been the case for a few weeks now, much of the military action has been happening |
| 1:27.6 | in the Donbass, that Russian-speaking old industrial heartland on the border between Ukraine and Russia. |
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