Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,3 mins

Watermelons and Ukrainian resistance

The Fifth Floor

Available for over a year

It’s watermelon season in Ukraine, but this year war has blocked supplies from Kherson, now largely under Russian control. But if few watermelons have reached Kyiv markets, there's a bumper crop on social media. BBC Monitoring’s Margaryta Maliukova has been unpicking the memes. (Photo: Watermelons. Credit: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Programme Website
More episodes