Ukraine crisis: ‘It’s like they stuck a knife in our back’
Ukraine has been living with war for the past eight years, and people in Dnipro are dealing with past scars and…
Ukraine’s eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk counts more veterans of the fighting with Russian-backed forces than any other outside Kyiv, even though most people locally are Russian-speakers.
The region has also treated most of the casualties caused by a war that’s already lasted for eight years.
As Ukraine’s Western allies continue to warn that Russia may be planning to escalate the conflict to all-out war, the BBC’s Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford has been to the city of Dnipro to see how people there are coping – both with the scars of the fighting so far and the threat of more to come.
Producer: Tony Brown
Filming and Editing: Olivia Lace-Evans
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