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Road block 15

A woman fleeing Mariupol shares her family’s frightening checkpoint experience

A woman from Mariupol describes the humiliation her mother and father faced as they travelled through checkpoints out of the city.

Also, Irena Taranyuk from the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú’s Ukrainian service tells Vitaly and Lewis how she’s been accused of not being pro-Ukrainian enough.

And on the day that Putin’s daughters are sanctioned, we dig into the secrecy around his family with journalist Farida Rustamova who dared to ask the Russian president about it.

This episode of Ukrainecast was made by Estelle Doyle with Chris Flynn and Osman Iqbal. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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