What is the future for 20-year-old student Vitalii?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The dreams of 20-year-old student Vitalii have been put on hold. He wanted to travel abroad and become a diplomat, but now he can’t leave the country or continue his studies. Victoria and Vitaliy catch up with friend of Ukrainecast Vitalii Pashchenko.
Andrew Harding spends time with a Ukrainian tank unit working with outdated equipment, he tells us why Ukraine desperately needs more help from Western allies.
And we hear from the founder of Breaking the Chains, an animal rescue charity about their work rescuing abandoned and injured animals in Ukraine.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaliy Shevchenko. The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson and Luke Radcliff. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Fiona Leach. The assistant editor is Alison Gee and the editor is Sam Bonham. 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
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 328 days since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and we have begun too |
| 0:10.5 | many episodes with the words Russian missiles strike Ukraine. |
| 0:15.6 | But the footage of the latest round of attacks in Dniepero, felling apartment buildings |
| 0:21.0 | and leaving 44 people dead, according to the mayor of the central city, have again seared |
| 0:27.6 | this war's images in our minds. |
| 0:37.1 | There's a particular picture of a perfectly preserved kitchen, yellow, |
| 0:40.9 | modern, fitted high-up, no doubt with a view, but its front is completely blown off. |
| 0:47.6 | It belonged to the Kuranovsky family and tragically the father of the family is now dead. |
| 0:54.8 | There is another image, and it's of a young woman called Anastasia Schwetz, |
| 1:00.0 | and she is pictured high up in a residential building. |
| 1:04.9 | Completely surrounded by debris, stranded on a pile of rubble, next to a grimy white, |
| 1:11.0 | but perfectly preserved bathtub waiting to be rescued. |
| 1:15.6 | And because the front has been blown off, the flat that she's in, if she could step off |
| 1:24.0 | into the fresh air. |
| 1:27.0 | The only thing that upsets me except the fact that I can't find my father is the text I received |
| 1:33.0 | from my neighbors. They said the rescue workers have now got into our flat with a stretcher. |
| 1:40.6 | They found somebody on the balcony. I'm very scared even to imagine who they found there, |
| 1:46.4 | and in what condition, whether she is alive or not. |
| 1:49.9 | There's a lot to talk about today. Vitaly is going to explain what's going on with this fighter |
| 1:56.9 | from the private pro-Russian army, the Wagner group, who has escaped an all-way and is now claiming |
| 2:01.8 | asylum seemingly. We're going to find out what happens to the pets that have been left behind by |
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