Posted on Apr 30, 2022
Newshour - Senkivka: The village at the crossroads of war in Ukraine - BBC Sounds
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The village of Senkivka in Ukraine is situated at the border intersection between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. BBC correspondent Yogita Limaye reports from the village that was once the site of festivals that celebrated the friendship between the three countries and which is now a war frontline. Its residents tell of families separated across borders and living in fear. The village is shelled several times a day, and rockets can be found in residents' yards. Experts say they could have carried cluster bombs, banned in many places.
Lidiya Bilousova, now in her 90s, remembers World War Two. She describes how the war has driven her family and the community apart.
"Back in the day I could run away, now I can't. I wouldn't leave here for anything in the world. There's nothing good about war. We've been friends with Belarus and Russia for years. People from our countries visited each other, married each other. My late husband was Belarusian."
Lidiya Bilousova, now in her 90s, remembers World War Two. She describes how the war has driven her family and the community apart.
"Back in the day I could run away, now I can't. I wouldn't leave here for anything in the world. There's nothing good about war. We've been friends with Belarus and Russia for years. People from our countries visited each other, married each other. My late husband was Belarusian."
Newshour - Senkivka: The village at the crossroads of war in Ukraine - BBC Sounds
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All the sorrow and a multitude of deaths because Putin is such an asshole.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"Mariupol is key to Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine and has become the most heavily bombed and damaged city in the war. Hundreds of thousands of people may still be in Mariupol, deprived of food, water and heating. Many are sheltering in cellars underground.
Just last week, Anna managed to get out of Mariupol after spending 20 days in a cellar and got herself to Zaporizhzhia. Knowing what she did about the conditions people were facing in Mariupol and frustrated by a lack of organised help for them, she raised money for a bus and is now heading back to the city to bring more people out of the beleaguered city. She says people have been advised to walk the 20 miles (35 kilometres) but that many are too weak and run the risk of being shot.
"People are dying. I don't have time to wait for others to do something"
"Mariupol is key to Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine and has become the most heavily bombed and damaged city in the war. Hundreds of thousands of people may still be in Mariupol, deprived of food, water and heating. Many are sheltering in cellars underground.
Just last week, Anna managed to get out of Mariupol after spending 20 days in a cellar and got herself to Zaporizhzhia. Knowing what she did about the conditions people were facing in Mariupol and frustrated by a lack of organised help for them, she raised money for a bus and is now heading back to the city to bring more people out of the beleaguered city. She says people have been advised to walk the 20 miles (35 kilometres) but that many are too weak and run the risk of being shot.
"People are dying. I don't have time to wait for others to do something"
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