What the Israel-Gaza conflict means for Ukraine
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Could Russia use conflict in the Middle East to its advantage?
The BBC’s Frank Gardner joins Hanna Notte, a Berlin-based analyst on Russian policy in the Middle East, to discuss what’s been happening in the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Today’s episode is presented by James Waterhouse and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producers were Keiligh Baker, Yulia Volovik, Arsenii Sokolov and Ivana Davidovic. The technical producer was Phil Bull. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news 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. |
| 0:06.1 | It's 594 days since Russia began |
| 0:09.9 | its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:12.3 | Vitali, it's been impossible, hasn't it really, to ignore what's been happening in Israel |
| 0:18.3 | and the Gaza Strip over the past few days. |
| 0:21.3 | The imagery that we've seen James, it's truly shocking. People bleeding, dying, dead, |
| 0:29.6 | civilians, festival goers, and for anyone who's been watching Ukraine over the past 17 |
| 0:37.0 | months there are similarities awful striking similarities such as cars shot at exploded, burned out, lining empty streets. |
| 0:50.8 | This is what we saw in Ukraine last year outside of Kiev in places such as Butcher and |
| 0:57.4 | European and that's why so many people now are saying that targeting civilians is awfully |
| 1:06.2 | awfully wrong it's it can't be done it should not be done and this kind of |
| 1:11.3 | feeling it resonates with Ukrainians. |
| 1:15.0 | It certainly has, Vitali. I think the shock and trauma we are seeing there |
| 1:19.8 | is bringing back a lot of difficult memories for colleagues here. |
| 1:23.8 | So in today's episode, we're going to look at how those events |
| 1:28.6 | in the Middle East could have an impact |
| 1:30.9 | on this war in Ukraine. |
| 1:33.0 | This is Ukraine-cast. |
| 1:35.0 | Ukraine-cast from BBC News. |
| 1:38.0 | Ukraine is an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain. |
| 1:43.0 | Millions of people are without heating, without water. |
| 1:46.0 | Putin is the aggressor. |
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