Summary
One month since war broke out... Victoria, Gabriel and Vitaly reflect on the first weeks of a devastating conflict they never expected to happen. We explore where the war might go and how long for.
We also look back over the past month with the voices of some of the people affected who have given us their testimony, including updates about Vitaly’s own family.
And the BBC’s specialist disinformation reporter, Marianna Spring, tells us how online propaganda was used to try and justify Russia’s bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Phil Marzouk with Daniel Wittenberg and Alix Pickles. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, it's 28 days since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:10.8 | It's one month on, from something that I certainly thought would never happen, and I've |
| 0:15.4 | gone from a state of shock to a state of sort of grim acceptance, really. |
| 0:21.8 | But anyway, we've got one question today, which is to try to answer what happens next |
| 0:27.4 | in this devastating conflict. |
| 0:29.8 | If we try and answer that question, it's worth us looking back over the past month. |
| 0:34.4 | I mean, we can do that certainly with some of the really moving and really powerful |
| 0:39.4 | testimony that we've heard from people who I hope have become friends of this podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | This is what they've told us. |
| 0:47.1 | And how it feels is like terrifying. |
| 0:49.6 | What we worry about is that we are losing our people and we're losing our country. |
| 0:54.9 | We manage to survive, I don't know how my wife and my son are taking care of being taken |
| 1:01.2 | care of by doctors in the hospitals. |
| 1:03.8 | Whatever happens in this war, things will never go back to quote unquote normal. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi Mark, I'm Victoria, I'm so happy to see you and to talk to you. |
| 1:14.7 | How are you? |
| 1:15.7 | At the 12th. |
| 1:16.7 | At the 12th, yeah. |
| 1:17.7 | Friends was a surgery tomorrow. |
| 1:20.1 | Sirens went off, I wasn't the phone to her, she was really nervous, really tense. |
| 1:23.9 | You know, the sounds of sirens. |
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