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Anderson Cooper 360

CNN Team And Paramedics Get Caught In Russian Shelling

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The head of Ukraine’s railways says Russian forces struck five railway stations in central and western Ukraine as heavy fighting continues in the east. While shadowing paramedics in Kharkiv, CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward and her team were forced to run for safety after getting caught in the crossfire of Russian shelling. She tells Anderson Cooper about how important the first responders are to the locals who are still constantly getting bombarded by Russian forces. Plus, exclusive new reporting on thousands of text messages sent and received by Mark Meadows that reveal details about former President Trump’s inner circle communications before and after January 6. CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel joins AC360 to explain how Trump’s close associates, supporters and Republican lawmakers worked behind the scenes to try and overturn the election results.  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 from Kiev.

0:02.9

There is much report tonight, but also much to reflect on.

0:05.9

Two months in a day ago, Russian forces rolled into the country, expecting that by now

0:10.1

we'd all be reporting from Occupy Kiev.

0:12.8

The fact that we're not says so much about the endurance and bravery of the Ukrainian people.

0:17.0

And the reminders are everywhere.

0:19.2

As are the signs that those two qualities are about to get pushed even harder, because

0:23.6

some things are beyond endurance, such as the killing of a mother named Valerie or a

0:28.2

three-month-old baby girl Kira, Kira's grandmother and five others in a cruise missile strike

0:33.3

on Odessa over the weekend.

0:35.6

In a social media post, a few weeks ago, before the invasion, Valerie wrote that she had

0:40.4

just found a new level of happiness.

0:43.2

Her death, like that of thousands of Ukrainians over the last two months, was neither accidental,

0:47.7

nor incidental to any military objective.

0:50.9

It simply was.

0:51.9

Because Russians have been targeting residential areas from the beginning of this invasion.

0:57.5

It is more than anything this war is defining characteristic, targeting civilians.

1:02.5

Or in this case, in your peeing, targeting civilians, simply trying to flee the bombardment

1:08.0

of family here.

1:09.7

Evacuate at a train station in Kramataurus, children in a well-marked bomb shelter in

1:15.8

Marriopoul.

1:17.6

Countless civilians in the more than 100 hospitals and health facilities hit so far.

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