Interview with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and Dave Matthews performs a song to support refugees

State of the Union

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🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In an exclusive interview, Jake sits down with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to cover a wide range of issues, including the sinking of one of Vladimir Putin’s premier naval ships, whether Zelensky thinks he can win the fight in the Donbas, what can be done to help the devastated city of Mariupol, whether President Joe Biden should visit Ukraine and whether there is anything the Ukrainian people are willing to give up to end the war. Plus, singer-songwriter Dave Matthews performs a new song in support of refugees. To donate and help refugees please visit: cnn.com/impact 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	War Time President
0:08.0	Russian forces savage Ukraine, but after Russia's atrocities is Ukraine's leader still
0:13.2	willing to negotiate.
0:18.2	My exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky is next, plus the fight
0:24.8	ahead.
0:25.8	As Ukraine braces to face Russia in the east and claims a surprise victory at sea, how
0:31.7	long will the war last?
0:34.5	And desperate need, with millions displaced by the war, a new push to help.
0:40.0	Dave Matthews performs an original new song in support of refugees, and what you can
0:49.5	do.
0:55.8	Hello, I'm Dick Tapper in Levyv, Ukraine, and you're watching a special hour of State
1:02.5	of the Union.
1:03.5	Happy Easter and happy Passover to those who celebrate.
1:06.6	This weekend is one of hope for so many, but here in Ukraine, where it's been more than
1:10.6	50 days since Russian troops invaded, the destruction, frankly, seems limitless.
1:15.6	Yesterday, while traveling across the country, I saw buildings, homes blown away in Boled
1:21.0	Yanka outside Kiev, they're still digging bodies out from the rubble, bodies of families,
1:27.3	bodies of children, families that ran to the basement of their buildings for shelter
1:31.1	from Putin's bombs, and they did not make it.
1:34.4	We saw their toys that had been uncovered in the rubble.
1:37.4	This is the cost of Putin's unprovoked war on the people of Ukraine, and the end frankly
1:42.2	does not seem near, as the Russian focus moves to the east.
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