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From Our Own Correspondent: Shock and anger in Eastern Siberia

03/03/2022

Shock and anger in Eastern Siberia

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A visit to an Eastern Siberian village where shock and anger prevail over Ukraine.

A visit to the village of a Russian soldier, believed to be captured, in Eastern Siberia where residents express shock and anger about the invasion.

Ukrainians have mounted a defiant response since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of their country began. But scores of lives have nonetheless been lost. Moscow’s propaganda machine has been in full swing domestically,  trying to conceal any Russian casualties from the outside world. 
Caroline Davies visited went to a village in Eastern Siberia to speak to the families and friends of one of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine – who’s believed to have been captured.
Finland once signed a treaty which ensured it would not face a Soviet invasion, providing it stayed out of Nato and gave Moscow to influence its domestic and foreign policy. To date, Finland has remained outside Nato but a debate is now underway as to whether it should eventually join following threats from Vladimir Putin this week. Emilia Jansson reports that attitudes on the ground are beginning to shift.
For the majority of those attending the annual Republican Conference in Florida, the crisis in Ukraine was a subject best avoided.   Instead, President Joe Biden was cast as their greatest threat. Anthony Zurcher reports on the conference.
Thousands of miles off the coast of Chile, sits the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island. The islanders are eagerly anticipating the return of one of their beloved Moai – figures carved out of rock.  It was first brought to Chile in 1870.  Jane Chambers has been following the twists and turns of the great home coming of its return.
Copenhagen is home to one of the world’s largest humanitarian aid warehouses. The warehouse can store more than 36 000 pallets of life-saving equipment. It’s sorted and  packed by robots, humans and mechanised wheelbarrows. Sandra Kanthal has been to the warehouse, run by Unicef, to meet the people who work there.

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