At Least 50 People Killed In Train Station Missile Strike

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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At least 50 people, including five children, were killed and nearly 100 more were injured at an eastern Ukraine train station after Russian forces carried out a missile strike. Nate Mook is the CEO of World Central Kitchen and was close to the scene of the attack where he was helping feed evacuees in Kramatorsk. He joins AC360 and describes the scene of missile strike “catastrophic” and says it was a “direct attack on innocent civilians.” Plus, two days after the 2020 election Donald Trump Jr. texted then-chief of staff Mark Meadows ideas for overturning the results before it was called. CNN Congressional Correspondent Ryan Nobles tells Anderson Cooper what else was in the text message from the former President’s eldest son. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening very little can prepare you for some of the images out of Ukraine tonight.
0:05.0	They show plainly and simply the murder of civilians as they are fleeing from their
0:09.7	murderers.
0:10.7	At least 50 people killed, many more wounded today, at a train station, the eastern city
0:15.4	of Cremators.
0:16.4	You see the bodies there, broken bones, pools of blood, men, women, children.
0:23.8	The city and station are an evacuation hub for civilians escaping the Donbass.
0:29.0	Children, the elderly, people needing medical care, they can no longer get because their
0:33.5	local hospitals have already been destroyed.
0:36.8	Cruelty piled upon cruelty, compounded by a brazen claim by Russia that Ukrainians did
0:42.4	this to themselves, something that the Pentagon says is not the case.
0:46.9	The senior defense official saying it is the quote, full expectation on quote that an
0:51.0	SS-21 short-range ballistic missile was used in this strike.
0:56.4	In other words, what you see here, the broken bodies, spread all across what was a makeshift
1:02.0	waiting area for evacuees, was not inflicted by some errand unguided rocket or artillery
1:08.2	shell.
1:09.2	No, the SS-21 in its current version is accurate within 300 feet from as far away as
1:16.0	75 miles.
1:18.0	According to the area's top regional military official, the warhead used cluster munitions,
1:23.0	which scatters small-soaked bomblets across a wide area, creating a large, inescapable
1:29.2	killing zone.
1:30.8	Their weapons designed expressly for killing large numbers of people.
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