Mariupol Remains Contested; Civilians Trapped In City

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ukraine says its last two remaining units in Mariupol have now merged to bolster resistance in the heavily besieged city. Plus, the US and EU have pledged a combined $1.3 billion more in military aid for Ukraine as Russia prepares to launch an eastern offensive. Also, a key Russian warship has sunk, according to a Russian defense ministry statement reported by the state news agency. Ukraine says it hit the vessel, while Russia says it was a fire. 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	And good evening, I'm looking out on the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on day 50 of Russia's brutal
0:12.1	invasion of Ukraine.
0:13.3	I'm Jake Tapper.
0:14.6	Welcome to the special broadcast of The Lead Live from Ukraine.
0:18.2	We'll get to today's top headlines in just a moment, but I want to take a second to step
0:22.0	away from the news of troop movements and negotiations for more arms to look at the
0:27.6	human cost of what those of us covering this war are seeing on the ground.
0:31.4	The hideous wholesale slaughter of innocents and their loved ones left behind, moms and
0:37.7	dads, neighbors, friends, rescue workers who tried to save them, such as a six-year-old
0:43.1	girl in Mariopol, the coastal town that Russia has been pummeling for seven weeks.
0:47.8	We should warn you, these images will be disturbing.
0:51.0	An associated press photographer captured the final moments of this girl's life.
0:55.0	Her mother weeping outside the ambulance, her father, covered in blood at her side as
1:00.4	an EMT desperately tried to revive her.
1:04.6	Doctors and nurses crowding over her tiny body in the hospital, still wearing her unicorn
1:09.7	pajamas.
1:10.7	A doctor pumping oxygen into her lungs turned to the AP journalist and said, quote,
1:15.4	show this to Putin, the eyes of this child and crying doctors.
1:20.6	That girl could not be saved.
1:23.4	Under the countless Ukrainians killed or maimed by Russian landmines and booby traps, Ukrainian
1:28.4	fighters unable to find them all in time, Oleg Naumenko worked as a driver in the village
1:35.7	of Hoholyv outside of Kiev, according to the New York Times.
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