War on Truth: Ukraine
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What is fake, what is real? BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring speaks to people caught up in the battle for the truth in the information war over Ukraine. Families and friendships are being torn apart not only by the fighting, but by the radically different versions of reality that Ukrainians and Russians are being presented with, on TV and online. And social media has become a battleground for competing versions of truth.
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| 0:00.0 | I had this secret I robbed banks in my spare time |
| 0:05.8 | Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service |
| 0:09.4 | This is not a good thing to do because police are after you. |
| 0:14.8 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | It all began in late February. |
| 0:24.6 | We're live in Ukraine, a country at war after a huge Russian military offensive by land, sea and air. |
| 0:33.0 | The onslaught began just before dawn with a barrage of missiles on multiple targets right across the country. |
| 0:44.0 | We're |
| 0:45.0 | a priority. |
| 0:50.0 | Russian President Vladimir Putin |
| 0:52.0 | told the world he wants to protect Russians in Ukraine |
| 0:55.8 | and allegedly denazify the country. |
| 0:58.8 | But Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky says this invasion was an attack on freedom. |
| 1:05.0 | Putin started a war against Ukraine, against the whole democratic world. |
| 1:11.0 | He wanted to destroy my country. |
| 1:15.0 | And as news of the Russian army on the move was beamed around the world. My inbox and social media accounts were |
| 1:24.6 | flooded with messages from Ukrainians, Russians and Britons. Messages |
| 1:30.1 | about a very different battle from the armed assault, but one that's also having real |
| 1:34.9 | consequences for the people caught up in it. |
| 1:37.9 | Get depressed because when you sincerely tell people what is happening outside your window, what is happening to children who are |
| 1:43.9 | dying and they do not believe you it's very painful I understand Russian |
| 1:49.3 | propaganda makes this up I don't understand people who believe in it, especially when it's |
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