Episode description

Three men are convicted by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.

We speak to Tim Whewell, a BBC reporter who has been investigating the fate of more than a million Ukrainian refugees who have ended up in Russia. Have they been rescued? Or illegally deported?

And we check-in with Natalia, whose husband fought during the siege of the Azovstal steelworks.

This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Osman Iqbal and Alix Pickles. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Sam Bonham.

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