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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Massive explosion in Eastern Ukrainian city

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A huge explosion hits the disputed Ukrainian city of Soledar as Russia is claiming it has captured the city and officials in Kyiv insist the battle is not over yet. We have a live report from Ukraine and speak with the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations about the state of the war. Plus, President Biden faces a growing crisis as a special councel is now in place to investigate his handling of classified records. Also, the death toll is rising in the southeast United States after a series of tornados leave a wake of destruction. 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

Happening now a huge explosion in the disputed Ukrainian city of Soledar as Russia is

0:09.0

claiming it has captured the city and officials in Kyiv insist the battle is not over yet.

0:14.4

We have a live report from Ukraine and I'll talk to the Ukrainian ambassador to the

0:18.8

United States about the state of the war. Also tonight President Biden faces a growing crisis right now with a

0:26.1

special council now in place to investigate his handling of classified records.

0:31.0

We're learning more about documents that were found as the White House

0:34.5

fails to explain its delay in revealing key details. And new scenes of

0:40.1

devastation in the southeast, the death toll rising after dozens of tornadoes, including

0:46.5

a powerful twister that pounded Selma, Alabama.

0:50.2

We're getting official updates on this disaster and the rescue and recovery operations that are now underway.

0:57.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

1:01.0

I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation.

1:03.4

We're in the situation.

1:03.6

And we begin this hour in Ukraine and the stunning video just into CNN.

1:15.0

A huge explosion in the eastern town of Solodar at a building apparently occupied by Russian troops.

1:22.0

Russia and Ukraine at odds over whether the town is

1:25.1

under Russian control. See that Scott McLean is following all these developments

1:29.8

from Kiefer us. Scott what more can you tell us about this explosion?

1:36.1

Well, this explosion and this really remarkable video that we're just getting in shows

1:40.5

that the fighting is still very much ongoing there.

1:43.9

In the video you can see troops walking under a bridge along a roadway and then they turn toward

1:49.1

a house with a very distinctive green roof that appears to be a temporary barracks for Russian troops and at that

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