The Documentary Podcast

Ukraine’s defiance, four years on

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Feb 26, 2026
Jeremy Bowen, BBC international editor and veteran foreign correspondent, reports from front-line Ukraine. He walks through fortified towns, drone-defended roads and relief efforts. He hears local refusals to cede territory, diplomatic deadlocks, US leverage limits, soldiers’ front-line realities, Zelensky’s resolve and Ukraine’s industrial and drone-driven resilience.
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ANECDOTE

Frontline Bakery Feeding Communities

  • A minister named Ollier runs a frontline relief operation baking 17,000 loaves a week to feed civilians.
  • He uses an armoured SUV to deliver bread to dangerous outlying villages and evacuate people when possible.
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Fishing Nets As Drone Defence

  • Ukrainians deploy cheap fishing nets on poles to protect roads from FPV explosive drones.
  • Donated nets from Scotland, France and Norway create tunnel-like defences that tangle drone rotors and stop attacks effectively.
ANECDOTE

Hazardous Battlefield Body Recovery

  • A volunteer team collects bodies from battlefields, retrieving both Russian and Ukrainian dead without distinction.
  • The collector spoke of colleagues killed doing this hazardous work and compared conceding land to accepting a rapist's false promise.
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