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The BBC’s only English language programme entirely dedicated to the war in Ukraine and its fallout, Ukrainecast is your go-to podcast which investigates the biggest issues around the conflict: Could Putin push the nuclear button? How could Donald Trump end the war in 24 hours? What is the price for peace? The podcast is hosted by Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire and BBC Monitoring’s Vitaly Shevchenko. Ukrainecast covers the most important topics around the conflict and speaks to the real people who’ve lived through several years of war. It also brings you agenda-setting interviews with special guests each week such a...

Two Years On: Your Questions Answered

30 mins; February 23, 2024

Two Years On: How will America help Ukraine?

14 mins; February 22, 2024

Two Years On: What can the UN do?

19 mins; February 21, 2024

Two Years On: Banned from challenging Putin

21 mins; February 20, 2024

Oscar Winner '20 Days in Mariupol' Revisited

20 mins; February 19, 2024

Alexei Navalny: Putin’s Rival Reported Dead

20 mins; February 16, 2024

Where's my mum? Sashko’s search

24 mins; February 13, 2024

Putin's Interview With Tucker Carlson: What We Learned

25 mins; February 09, 2024

Crimea: Ten years under Russian control

26 mins; February 06, 2024

How do young people feel about being called up to fight?

29 mins; February 02, 2024

How has the war changed the world?

25 mins; January 30, 2024

Russian defectors: How to escape the military

33 mins; January 26, 2024

Extra episode: Russian plane crash

16 mins; January 24, 2024

Blasts in Ukraine and Russia: What do we know?

28 mins; January 23, 2024

Conscription crackdown: Ukraine gets tougher

24 mins; January 19, 2024

Lyudmila’s story: Life in the notorious Izolyatsia Prison

32 mins; January 16, 2024

Sunak visits Zelensky in Kyiv

32 mins; January 12, 2024

Bombs Over Belgorod

25 mins; January 09, 2024

Captured, imprisoned, tortured: Anna’s story

28 mins; January 05, 2024

Grim New Year: Russia and Ukraine Attack

23 mins; January 02, 2024

What could 2024 hold for Ukraine?

35 mins; January 02, 2024

Feeding Ukraine’s army over the festive season

28 mins; December 29, 2023

Christmas special: Ukrainian bedtime stories

9 mins; December 25, 2023

Ukrainian Christmas Carols: A Ukrainecast special

25 mins; December 22, 2023

BBC investigation: Russian soldiers treated like ‘meat’

28 mins; December 19, 2023

The Vladimir Putin Phone-In

23 mins; December 15, 2023

Zelensky's battles: At home and abroad

27 mins; December 12, 2023

The Missing Mariupol Defenders: When will he come home?

17 mins; December 08, 2023

Is Russia breaking the rules of war?

25 mins; December 05, 2023

The Disinformation War: How Does the BBC Spot Fake News?

28 mins; December 01, 2023

How Will Winter Impact The War?

26 mins; November 28, 2023

Why did Putin pardon a cannibal?

27 mins; November 24, 2023

Mariupol: Siege and occupation

27 mins; November 21, 2023

The Ukrainians dodging the draft

25 mins; November 17, 2023

Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipeline?

23 mins; November 14, 2023

The teenager who fled Kharkiv

26 mins; November 10, 2023

Has the counter-offensive failed?

27 mins; November 07, 2023

Ukraine’s Landmines: Your Questions Answered

25 mins; November 03, 2023

Antisemitic Attacks in Russia: A problem for Putin?

23 mins; October 31, 2023

The New Wagner Mercenary Group?

28 mins; October 27, 2023

Ukraine’s ‘stolen’ children: A mother's search for her son

29 mins; October 24, 2023

The ‘Poisoned’ Russian Reporter

30 mins; October 20, 2023

Is a new battlefront emerging in Ukraine?

23 mins; October 17, 2023

Hanna’s story: Triplets born on day one of the war

26 mins; October 13, 2023

What the Israel-Gaza conflict means for Ukraine

20 mins; October 10, 2023

Ukrainecast in Poland

31 mins; October 06, 2023

Extra episode: One of the deadliest attacks of the war

14 mins; October 05, 2023

What’s it like to be sentenced to death?

27 mins; October 03, 2023

Evan Gershkovich: Six Months Behind Bars

26 mins; September 29, 2023

Why is Crimea so important?

25 mins; September 26, 2023

Natalia’s Story: Learning to Walk Again

28 mins; September 22, 2023

How to report on a war

25 mins; September 19, 2023

Ukraine attacks in Crimea

26 mins; September 15, 2023

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un to meet

32 mins; September 12, 2023

Has Russia Moved on from Wagner?

30 mins; September 08, 2023

Is the F-16 Jet a Game-Changer?

29 mins; September 05, 2023

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

28 mins; September 01, 2023

Back to School

24 mins; August 29, 2023

Prigozhin Plane Crash: What Next for Putin?

26 mins; August 24, 2023

Prigozhin Presumed Dead

16 mins; August 23, 2023

The Midwife in the Bomb Shelter

30 mins; August 22, 2023

Who is Winning the Drone War?

27 mins; August 18, 2023

Viktoria’s Story: Adjusting to UK Life

25 mins; August 15, 2023

Brutally Beaten in Chechnya

30 mins; August 11, 2023

The Russian Fighting For Ukraine

29 mins; August 08, 2023

Two families torn apart by war

28 mins; August 04, 2023

Moscow Under Attack

29 mins; August 01, 2023

Aiden Aslin: Life after a Death Sentence

30 mins; July 28, 2023

Odesa: A Week of Missile Strikes

31 mins; July 25, 2023

Black Sea Ports Under Attack

29 mins; July 21, 2023

What happened on the Crimean bridge?

26 mins; July 18, 2023

Should Ukraine be more grateful for Western weapons?

30 mins; July 14, 2023

Nato's Ukraine Dilemma

30 mins; July 11, 2023

Graduation day

28 mins; July 07, 2023

The Ukraine Dam Disaster: Four Weeks On

29 mins; July 04, 2023

Which warlord will Putin turn to next?

30 mins; June 30, 2023

Putin and Prigozhin: Your Questions Answered

27 mins; June 27, 2023

Extra episode: What will Putin do next?

20 mins; June 25, 2023

Extra episode: Is Russia on the verge of a coup?

25 mins; June 24, 2023

How far might Russia go to win in Ukraine?

35 mins; June 23, 2023

Who’s winning the counter-offensive?

29 mins; June 20, 2023

Mariupol prisoners of war on trial

29 mins; June 16, 2023

Inside Ukraine's retaken village

32 mins; June 13, 2023

Surviving the Kakhovka floods

35 mins; June 09, 2023

Kherson floods: thousands evacuated

25 mins; June 07, 2023

Kakhovka dam disaster

21 mins; June 06, 2023

Has the counter-offensive begun?

14 mins; June 05, 2023

Life as a mum in a war zone

29 mins; June 02, 2023

Drones attack Moscow and Kyiv

27 mins; May 30, 2023

Dnipro hospital destroyed in Russian attack

26 mins; May 26, 2023

What’s really going on in Belgorod?

30 mins; May 23, 2023

Spies Next Door

34 mins; May 19, 2023

Ukraine repels hypersonic missile barrage

27 mins; May 16, 2023

Extra episode: President Zelensky makes surprise visit to UK

14 mins; May 15, 2023

Why the world needs to understand Russia

32 mins; May 11, 2023

Moscow’s slimmed-down Victory Day

28 mins; May 09, 2023

Countdown to Eurovision with Ukraine's TVORCHI

29 mins; May 05, 2023

Zelensky denies ordering Kremlin drone strike on Putin

11 mins; May 03, 2023

Liverpool and Kyiv unite for Eurovision rave

31 mins; May 02, 2023

Russian missiles kill at least 25 in Ukraine

28 mins; April 28, 2023

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