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Exclusive Frontline Insight From Ukraine’s Army Chief and a Hollywood Hitmaker’s New Murder-mystery

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Christiane is in Ukraine this week as the country faces its biggest government shakeup since Russia’s full-scale invasion began over 30 months ago, with the war at a critical turning point. She sits down with Ukraine’s Army Chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, for an exclusive interview from an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sat down with her in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's strategic gains and looming challenges just one day before he offered to resign. Then, a look at the cutting-edge land drones Ukraine is using to transform the reality on the battlefield. Plus, Oscar-winning filmmaker Susanne Bier speaks to Christiane her new Netflix hit, “The Perfect Couple”, and working with Nicole Kidman. From Christiane’s archive, we revisit the heartbreaking cost of the war there, with an update on one of Ukraine's war amputees. And finally, commemorating Mother Teresa’s legacy of compassion and care on the anniversary of her death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the Amunpour hour here's where we're headed this week.

0:13.0

You have to constantly think how to make the life of your enemy more complicated.

0:18.0

A major government shake up in Ukraine as Russia steps up its ferocious missile attacks on the country.

0:25.1

I speak to Foreign Minister Dimitro Kuleba just hours before he offered his resignation.

0:30.8

And we moved the fighting to the enemy's territory so that he could feel what we feel every day.

0:37.0

As Ukraine takes the fight into Russia, my world exclusive with the mastermind behind Keeves counter-offensive, Ukraine's new Army Chief

0:45.6

Alexander Serbsky.

0:47.6

Then, we should have technologists to kill more Russians.

0:50.0

Technology providing a lifeline in this war, my report on the new land drones on Ukraine's front lines.

0:57.0

Also ahead,

0:58.0

You are as lucky as your mother and I have been.

1:01.0

You will have a very long and a very very

1:03.0

happy marriage. Cheers be we love a murder mystery in high society America

1:07.7

Oscar winning filmmaker Susanna Bea joined me in the studio just before my trip to Ukraine on her new show the perfect

1:14.9

couple and casting Nicole Kidman again plus a story of survival and endurance, an update on a wounded soldier we met here six months ago.

1:27.0

Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in Ukraine this week

1:36.6

where the government is making more desperate appeals to the United States for

1:41.5

patriots and other top anti-missile defense systems.

1:45.4

Now, 30 months into this war, Russia has stepped up its all-out offensive across this country,

1:51.9

ballistic missile striking energy infrastructure as

1:55.0

Russia tries to cripple the grid for this winter, hitting hotels now

2:00.0

and also a military academy that killed dozens and wounded more than 200 people in one of the deadliest attacks of the war.

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