What will Putin do next?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Gatehouse joins Victoria and Vitaly to discuss the reactions in Russia to the recent setbacks in Ukraine. While some are calling for the Kremlin to take more drastic action, others appear to question the war itself.
On the ground in Kharkiv, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo explains us how the city went through a complete power outage after Russian forces shelled the second biggest Ukrainian thermal power plant.
We catch up with Maksym Lutskyi, a 19 year old Ukrainian fighter, who describes the celebratory mood among fighters. And, Illia Ponomarenko from the Kyiv Independent shares his assessment of where the war will go next.
The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The producers are Ivana Davidovic and Arsenii Sokolov. The planning producer is Louise Hidalgo. The technical producer is Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall. 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. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, it's 201 days now since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:10.1 | In the past few days, Ukraine has been making rapid gains in eastern Kharkiv region. |
| 0:16.5 | Town after town, village after village, have been retaken by Ukrainian forces. |
| 0:22.2 | And since we last spoke 48 hours ago, there's been news that in certain places, Ukrainian |
| 0:29.6 | troops have actually reached the border with Russia. |
| 0:34.6 | And in those towns and villages, retaken or liberated by Ukrainian forces, there've |
| 0:40.4 | been numerous scenes of joy, but locals welcoming Ukrainian soldiers, crying, but for a change, |
| 0:50.7 | they were crying tears of joy. |
| 0:59.2 | And everyone is hoping that this moment is the turning point of the war. |
| 1:06.9 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:08.9 | Ukraine cast, from this moment. |
| 1:12.4 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. |
| 1:21.6 | I could not imagine that I would find out that actually my home is bombed. |
| 1:27.5 | Is the aggression? |
| 1:28.5 | He will never be able to cleanse the blood from his hands. |
| 1:33.7 | Hello, it's Victoria. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm in Edinburgh, where the Queen is lying at rest. |
| 1:39.0 | And I'm just pausing my Royal Reporting for BBC News Night 2, obviously, to talk to |
| 1:43.7 | you about the situation in Ukraine. |
| 1:46.1 | And this is Vitaly in the Ukraine cast studio in Broadcasting House, here in London, where |
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