Occupied - BBC World Service

On March 1 Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, watched Russian tanks roll down his street. As his world, like many Ukrainians’, turned upside down, he secretly started filming everything around him, sensing history in the making, and sharing the footage with BBC Eye. Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldservice Over the next three months Dmytro records his city’s resistance. Acts of defiance, including large demonstrations are followed by a violent crackdown. The city changes. Food and medicine become scarce. Russian military vehicles marked with the “Z” speed up and down Kherson streets. Shelling is heard round the clock. Many people flee. Friends and prominent local people start to disappear - others are put through mock executions. As the Russians make their intentions clearer, Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shelter their five-year-old daughter Ksusha from what is happening. The documentary is filled with colourful detail of how the young family find ways of coping as their city is steadily stripped of its Ukrainian identity. Dmytro realises just how dangerous his secret project is when a pro-Ukrainian priest he has been filming is kidnapped and tortured by unidentified men from the Russian security services. More on the war in Ukraine here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4fOM5lsRoJ0liaiBorTiRvl Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook: https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice

What do Russians think now? 2 weeks after the start.

Russia on Ukraine - Press Conference (4 April 2022)

Ukraine: Concert for Peace - UN Chamber Music Society

The UN Chamber Music Society will present a Concert for Peace for Ukraine. The United Nations and our humanitarian partners are committed to delivering support to people in Ukraine in their time of need. The United Nations staff are always guided by the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and humanity. They provide lifesaving humanitarian relief to people in need, regardless of who or where they are. According to UNHCR, over 3 million Ukrainians have fled across the country’s borders. We are facing what could easily become Europe’s worst humanitarian and refugee crisis since World War II, with the numbers of refugees and internally displaced multiplying by the minute. Music binds us together in these darkest moments. Through compassion and solidarity, the musicians of UN Chamber Music Society will perform a Concert for Peace for Ukraine. Opening remarks will be delivered by Amin Awad, United Nations Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine, and Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. Founded in 2016, the UNCMS is dedicated to promoting the goals of the UN through the universal language of music.