Ukrainecast
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 as UK foreign secretary David Cameron, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and pre-eminent Russia expert Fiona Hill.
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Can Trump negotiate with Putin?
How serious are Putin's nuclear threats?
1000 Days of War
Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with American long-range missiles
Jens Stoltenberg on... Trump, Putin and nuclear war
Coming up on Ukrainecast
Mike Pompeo revisited: How could Trump end the war in 24 hours?
Trump 2.0: What does it mean for Ukraine?
Bob Woodward on... Trump, Harris and the future of democracy
Dodging the draft: Ukraine’s struggle for soldiers
North Koreans in Russia: How dangerous is the world right now?
Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins… Debunking Russian myths
Is the West out of touch with the reality of the war?
How can peace be achieved in Ukraine?
Putin's war economy: Are Russians feeling the pinch?
US elections: no good choices for Ukraine
Is Trump toughening his stance on Ukraine?
Can President Zelensky sell his ‘victory plan’ to the Americans?
Is Ukraine facing a mental health crisis?
Inside the biggest prisoner exchange since the Cold War
Could the West cross Putin's new red line?
What could Trump vs Harris mean for a Ukraine peace deal?
Ben Wallace on... How Ukraine can win
Russia strikes Poltava: "A barbaric attack"
Ukraine's Incursion: Is this a winning strategy?
Russia hammers Ukraine's infrastructure
Stephen Fry: The mental scars of Ukraine's war
Ukraine's Incursion: The view from Ukraine
Ukraine’s Incursion: What’s life like in Kursk?
Ukraine's Incursion: The view from Russia
Why have Ukrainian forces entered Russia?
Q&A with war correspondent Luke Harding
Biggest Prisoner Swap since the Cold War
How much do Ukrainians want a peace deal?
The Americans behind Russian bars
Ukraine’s Olympians: Going for gold as war rages
The President Zelensky Interview
Could Ukraine be losing support from the West?
Is China helping Russia fight Ukraine?
What did the Nato summit achieve?
Could Nato survive a Trump presidency?
Children's hospital hit: Dozens dead in strikes across Ukraine
Q&A: How are global elections impacting Ukraine?
Serhiy's story: How Russia silenced a young man's voice
Lidiia's story: The 98-year-old who fled from Russian occupation in her slippers
The Trial Of Evan Gershkovich
Q&A: What does the Russia-North Korea deal mean for Ukraine?
Putin heads to North Korea
What are Putin's ceasefire terms?
Iryna and Volodymyr's story: Having a baby in wartime
Q&A: What can we expect from the Ukraine Peace Summit?
Maksym's Story: Growing up on the frontline
Q&A with Fiona Hill: Where are the weapons Ukraine says it needs to fight Russia?
Kharkiv’s Metro School: Learning Underground
Arsenii and Yulia's story: Life after Azovstal
Q&A: Is Ukraine still happy with President Zelensky?
Mike Pompeo: How could Trump end the war in 24 hours?
Russia attacks Kharkiv: The new frontline?
Eurovision: How important is it to Ukraine?
Why is Victory Day such a big deal in Russia?
Q&A: 800 days, what is the price for peace?
The mayor of Bakhmut: a town that no longer exists
Q&A: Is the US's $61bn aid package enough?
From the frontline: How can US aid change the war?
Q&A: How many Russian soldiers have died?
A tale of two soldiers: Can Ukraine actually win?
Q&A: How can Ukraine grow its army?
Could Russia take Kharkiv?
The David Cameron Interview
Is Russia waging a “holy war”?
Moscow Attack: How could it Impact the War?
A million without power: Ukraine's blackout
Could drones change the course of the war?
Russian Election: Putin’s Predictable Landslide
Russian Elections: Your questions answered
Would Putin push the nuclear button?
Fiona Hill: Working for Trump, Dining with Putin
The Economic War: How Hard Are Sanctions Hitting Russia?
Navalny’s Funeral: Is protest dead in Putin’s Russia?
What’s happening on the front-line?
Two Years On: The Global Story
Two Years On: Life after the front-line
Two Years On: Your Questions Answered
Two Years On: How will America help Ukraine?
Two Years On: What can the UN do?
Two Years On: Banned from challenging Putin
Oscar Winner '20 Days in Mariupol' Revisited
Alexei Navalny: Putin’s Rival Reported Dead
Where's my mum? Sashko’s search
Putin's Interview With Tucker Carlson: What We Learned
Crimea: Ten years under Russian control
How do young people feel about being called up to fight?
How has the war changed the world?
Russian defectors: How to escape the military
Extra episode: Russian plane crash
Blasts in Ukraine and Russia: What do we know?
Conscription crackdown: Ukraine gets tougher
Lyudmila’s story: Life in the notorious Izolyatsia Prison
Sunak visits Zelensky in Kyiv
Bombs Over Belgorod
Captured, imprisoned, tortured: Anna’s story
Grim New Year: Russia and Ukraine Attack
What could 2024 hold for Ukraine?
Feeding Ukraine’s army over the festive season
Christmas special: Ukrainian bedtime stories
Ukrainian Christmas Carols: A Ukrainecast special
BBC investigation: Russian soldiers treated like ‘meat’
The Vladimir Putin Phone-In
Zelensky's battles: At home and abroad
The Missing Mariupol Defenders: When will he come home?
Is Russia breaking the rules of war?
The Disinformation War: How Does the BBC Spot Fake News?
How Will Winter Impact The War?
Why did Putin pardon a cannibal?
Mariupol: Siege and occupation
The Ukrainians dodging the draft
Who Sabotaged the Nord Stream Pipeline?
The teenager who fled Kharkiv
Has the counter-offensive failed?
Ukraine’s Landmines: Your Questions Answered
Antisemitic Attacks in Russia: A problem for Putin?
The New Wagner Mercenary Group?
Ukraine’s ‘stolen’ children: A mother's search for her son
The ‘Poisoned’ Russian Reporter
Is a new battlefront emerging in Ukraine?
Hanna’s story: Triplets born on day one of the war
What the Israel-Gaza conflict means for Ukraine
Ukrainecast in Poland
Extra episode: One of the deadliest attacks of the war
What’s it like to be sentenced to death?
Evan Gershkovich: Six Months Behind Bars
Why is Crimea so important?
Natalia’s Story: Learning to Walk Again
How to report on a war
Ukraine attacks in Crimea
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un to meet
Has Russia Moved on from Wagner?
Is the F-16 Jet a Game-Changer?
Ukraine’s counter-offensive: has it made progress?
Back to School
Prigozhin Plane Crash: What Next for Putin?
Prigozhin Presumed Dead
The Midwife in the Bomb Shelter
Who is Winning the Drone War?
Viktoria’s Story: Adjusting to UK Life
Brutally Beaten in Chechnya
The Russian Fighting For Ukraine
Two families torn apart by war
Moscow Under Attack
Aiden Aslin: Life after a Death Sentence
Odesa: A Week of Missile Strikes
Black Sea Ports Under Attack
What happened on the Crimean bridge?
Should Ukraine be more grateful for Western weapons?
Nato's Ukraine Dilemma
Graduation day
The Ukraine Dam Disaster: Four Weeks On
Which warlord will Putin turn to next?
Putin and Prigozhin: Your Questions Answered
Extra episode: What will Putin do next?
Extra episode: Is Russia on the verge of a coup?
How far might Russia go to win in Ukraine?
Who’s winning the counter-offensive?
Mariupol prisoners of war on trial
Inside Ukraine's retaken village
Surviving the Kakhovka floods
Kherson floods: thousands evacuated
Kakhovka dam disaster
Has the counter-offensive begun?
Life as a mum in a war zone
Drones attack Moscow and Kyiv
Dnipro hospital destroyed in Russian attack
What’s really going on in Belgorod?
Spies Next Door
Ukraine repels hypersonic missile barrage
Extra episode: President Zelensky makes surprise visit to UK
Why the world needs to understand Russia
Moscow’s slimmed-down Victory Day
Countdown to Eurovision with Ukraine's TVORCHI
Zelensky denies ordering Kremlin drone strike on Putin
Liverpool and Kyiv unite for Eurovision rave
Russian missiles kill at least 25 in Ukraine
Chernobyl Remembered
Is the Ukraine war killing dolphins?
Counting Russia’s war dead
Stacey Dooley joins soldiers in training
What do the Pentagon leaks tell us?
Elya’s story: A refugee returns home
Denounced in Russia
Russia arrests US journalist
Gathering evidence of atrocities
Ukraine: Will American support hold in 2024?
Putin and Xi talk partnership and peace proposals
Arrest warrant issued for Putin
Learning the language
Mariupol one year on
The power of music
The trauma of Ukraine's children
Ukraine’s War Diaries
The anniversary
12 Months On: Your questions answered
12 Months On: President Putin’s Next Steps?
12 Months On: British Ambassador in Conversation
12 Months On: Vlad's Journey to England
Inside a prisoner of war camp for Russians
‘It’s just a casual donkey’
The man in the woods
Extra episode: President Zelensky makes a surprise visit to the UK
Why do so many Russians support the war?
The Ukrainian amputees who want to fight again
Gearing up for a spring offensive?
The spying game
Why is Russia censoring LGBT-themed TV series?
‘Have you ever had to collect your kid from the battlefield?’
Extra episode: Ukraine's interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash
What is the future for 20-year-old student Vitalii?
Bedtime stories from Ukraine
The Battle for the City of Bakhmut
The Church, the Kremlin and the ceasefire that wasn’t
Russia blames deadly attack on mobile phones
2022: The year war engulfed Ukraine
Viktoria’s Story: Starting a new life in the UK
Ukraine’s wartime Christmas
President Zelensky gets a warm welcome in Washington
Identifying the Ukrainian bodies found in shallow graves
Stories from pro-Russian Ukrainians
Russia’s high-tech mega-trench
What happens to Russian soldiers who refuse to fight?
The Winter Wonderland in Kyiv with bomb Shelters
Comedy in Kyiv: Laughter brings light to a city at war
Trench warfare: Fighting in the winter months
Putin and Biden: Will they talk?
The Russian recruit who died before reaching the front line
The Kyiv surgeons operating by torchlight
Ukraine’s first lady: We can cope with blackouts for two or three years
The newborn baby killed by a missile
Maidan: Where it all began?
Released from Russia for a reunion with my 5 year old Ukrainian daughter
Who fired the missile into Poland?
A missile hits Poland: How will Nato respond?
What does Kherson mean for Putin?
Ukraine retakes Kherson
Kherson: Russian retreat?
The full horror of Mariupol - a BBC investigation
A mother’s plea to get her teenage son back
The great-grandmother attacked in her own home
What next for Ukrainian refugees?
‘Dad, you have five days to get us’
Are there any Russian spies left in Europe?
Diary of an Occupation
Christiane Amanpour and Lyse Doucet
Why is Russia evacuating Kherson?
‘Kamikaze’ drones attack Kyiv
Russia's Kherson Evacuation
Why are Ukrainian orphans ending up in Russia?
Missile strikes across Ukraine
A history of Ukraine and Russia
'There may be no tomorrow for my friends'
Will Russia use nuclear weapons?
Russia makes claims, Ukraine makes gains
Deconstructing that Putin speech
Nord Stream leaks: Sabotage?
Are the Russian protests growing?
Fleeing the Call Up
Putin issues nuclear threats
Who is still friends with Putin?
The war crimes investigator
Anastasia’s Story
What will Putin do next?
Extra episode: Ukraine Advances
Ukraine pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
'Worse than Bucha'
The Secret Concert
Americast: Mar-a-Legal Trouble
The mysterious death of the Russian oil boss
Gorbachev and Ukraine
Confessions of a Russian soldier
Six Months On
‘Putin’s Rasputin’
Where is my husband?
A Voice from Crimea
Frontman on the frontline
Kept at gunpoint in a nuclear plant
Captured by Russia
Nuclear Power Struggle
What about China?
Russia's shadow army
Father and Son reunited
Why hasn’t Russia banned YouTube?
The interview with Ukraine's First Lady
Locked away in Ukraine's orphanages
The Russian charm offensive in Africa
A deal for Ukrainian grain
Russia, Iran and Turkey
The Russian Millionaire Driving Medicine to Ukraine
Sexual Violence: A Weapon Of War
Defending those who refuse to fight
Jailed for Speaking Out
Taira’s story
The Snake Island medic
Russia seizes key city
The missing mayor
Ukraine's IT army
The shopping mall
The Resistance
The forgotten POW
Rescue mission
The Lavrov interview
The 19-year-old soldier
Viktoria's story
Life in a Russian prison
Sentenced to death
The woman in a red coat
‘Dead Cities’
Missiles Return to Kyiv
100 Days
A boost to Kyiv’s firepower
Rouble Rumblings
War Crimes: Opposing Perspectives
Russian Soldiers Resign
The Battle for the Donbas
Zaporizhzhia under attack
The 4-year-old girl all alone
Convicted War Criminal
Rebuilding Bucha
"The Global Food Crisis"
The War Crimes Trial
Steelworks Survivors
The Children’s Camp
Captured and in Court
Killed on camera
What are Russians thinking?
Shot in front of his son
Putin's parade
Preparing for that parade
Disabled orphaned abandoned
The Cost of Oil
Escape from Mariupol
Deported to Russia
Putin's Enemy
The trauma of war
Can the UN end the war?
A tale of two Ukraines
'A horror story'
Putin "Liberates" Mariupol
No surrender
Putin’s Perspective
A Listener to the Rescue
Zelensky on the BBC
The fugitive
The Mayor of Bucha
Russia's New Commander
The Station
Cold-calling Russia
Road block 15
Verifying Violence
Horror in Bucha
Bodies on the Highway
Russia's Threat to Stop Gas Supplies
Peace Talk Problems
Peace Talk Promises
Hussain: Escape from Kherson
Women and Children
What next?
Ukrainecast + Global News Podcast (Part 2)
Cyber Threat
Roman's story
Families at War
'War criminal'
Zelensky’s plea to Congress
Curfew in Kyiv
Mariupol
Approaching Kyiv
Escalation warning
The Info War
Hospital attacked
Ukrainecast + Global News Podcast
Escaping Ukraine
10 days that changed the world
'A new Chechnya'
Ports under siege
Cities under fire
The convoy advances
What is Putin thinking?
Nuclear Reaction
The Resistance
The Battle for Kyiv