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Why is Crimea so important?

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  • Why is Crimea so important?

    Following recent the Ukrainian attack on the HQ of Russia's Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol, is Kyiv getting ready to retake the peninsula? The BBC’s James Waterhouse and defence and security analyst Michael Clarke assess the...

  • Natalia’s Story: Learning to Walk Again

    A family of amputees learn to walk again. We talk to Natalia Stepanenko, who was badly injured in the Kramatorsk railway attack last year. Both her and her 12 year old daughter Yana lost legs, while Natalia’s husband died in a separate...

  • How to report on a war

    Three seasoned correspondents discuss the challenges of covering prolonged conflicts, in particular, the issue of “news fatigue”. Chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, international editor Jeremy Bowen and the BBC’s Quentin...

  • Ukraine attacks in Crimea

    Ukraine says it has damaged naval ships in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea and hit air defences. We ask Britain’s most recent defence attaché in Moscow, John Foreman whether Ukraine is stepping up its attacks on Crimea and how Russia...

  • Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un to meet

    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia to meet president Vladimir Putin. The BBC’s Seoul Correspondent, Jean Mackenzie discusses what the two leaders want from their first get together in four years and whether the West...

  • Has Russia Moved on from Wagner?

    The BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg answers your questions on Yevgeny Prigozhin, pro-Kremlin talk shows and Kim Jong Un. We catch up with the BBC’s Olga Malchevska who talks us through the latest attack which killed at least 17...

  • Is the F-16 Jet a Game-Changer?

    Why has President Zelensky lobbied Western powers for the F-16? What are the challenges in getting them deployed? And could they shift the balance in the war for Ukraine’s skies? To discuss this we’re joined by Dan ‘Two-Dogs’ Hampton,...

  • Ukraine’s counter-offensive: has it made progress?

    Despite the reported capture of the village of Robotyne, is Ukraine making any meaningful gains in its counter-offensive? To take stock of how it’s going, Victoria and Vitaly are joined by Riley Bailey from the Institute for the Study...

  • Back to School

    What is it like in the classroom during wartime? Two Ukrainian teachers, Lesia Yurchyshyn in Kyiv and Olga Hrihoryeva in Kherson, discuss their differing experiences of what teaching has been like since the war began, from remote...

  • Prigozhin Plane Crash: What Next for Putin?

    Does the Wagner chief’s reported death strengthen the Russian president? Lyse, Vitaly and journalist Gabriel Gatehouse unpick the latest developments surrounding Wednesday's plane crash, and the presumed death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the...

  • Prigozhin Presumed Dead

    In an extra episode of Ukrainecast, Adam Fleming and Vitaly Shevchenko are joined by the BBC’s Frank Gardner and Lou Osborne from the monitoring group All Eyes on Wagner to discuss the news that the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has...

  • The Midwife in the Bomb Shelter

    One woman’s story of helping to deliver 136 babies in 42 days from a warzone. Midwife Vira Tselyk tells Lucy and Vitaly about the 42 days she spent working from a bunker, helping to deliver over a hundred and thirty babies. We also...