Women and Children
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
As Ukraine recaptures some of its towns, Victoria, Vitaly and Gabriel give an on-the-ground update and explain why Vladimir Putin has been talking about JK Rowling.
Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun speaks to us from Kyiv to discuss the first official investigation into rape allegations of a Ukrainian woman by a Russian soldier.
And Unicef spokesperson James Elder joins us from Lviv where air raid sirens continue to signal the horrors facing Ukrainian children.
But first... we have some good news from Hussain as he sends us a voice note from the road to Odessa: he has finally fled Kherson.
This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Phil Marzouk, Nat Ktena and Michele Theil. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's 29 days since Russian forces invaded Ukraine. |
| 0:09.3 | And so many of you have been asking about Hussein, |
| 0:11.8 | who's been in the hair salon, Russian controlled hair salon. |
| 0:15.3 | And I've been talking to him, I've been messaging on telegram. |
| 0:19.7 | And I haven't been able to tell anybody anything |
| 0:22.6 | because it's just been too dangerous. |
| 0:25.2 | And today, and you haven't heard this, Gabriel and Vitaly, |
| 0:28.4 | he sent this. |
| 0:29.9 | Hi. |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah, we managed to get out finally |
| 0:33.9 | from the Russian occupied territories |
| 0:37.0 | across the hair salon already. |
| 0:40.2 | The currently in Mikolife, extremely happy to leave, |
| 0:43.5 | like, you are once again, you know, |
| 0:47.9 | certain enough, the free world, which |
| 0:50.9 | was very different before. |
| 0:53.8 | Thanks a lot for all the nice things that |
| 0:59.8 | as people done to us otherwise it was impossible. |
| 1:03.8 | We had had it towards, what they saw right now. |
| 1:09.2 | And from there, we will try to enter the Moldon border, |
| 1:14.2 | probably by evening today or tomorrow morning. |
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