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Anderson Cooper 360

Pentagon: Airspace Over Ukraine Remains “Contested”

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the airspace over Ukraine remains “contested” and warned that it “appears as if the Russians are broadening their target set.” A senior U.S. defense official tells CNN that Russian forces haven’t encircled Kyiv yet but they’re trying. Marie Yovanovitch is a former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. She joins AC360 to discuss whether she thinks the U.S. is doing enough to help Ukraine. Plus, Los Angeles Times photojournalist and foreign correspondent Marcus Yam has been bringing the horror and tragedy of the war to the world through his photos. He tells Anderson Cooper how tense things are on the outskirts of Kyiv and what he’s been seeing. 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 Laviv Ukraine. Defiance in the face of great loss. That describes the

0:07.6

moment here tonight. And for one brief instant in Moscow, there was also defiance seen by

0:13.2

millions on Russian state TV's evening news.

0:16.6

You can see they cut away from the protesters in the studio. Her sign read, no war. Stop the

0:34.2

war. Do not believe propaganda. They tell you lies here. The woman who reportedly works

0:39.6

for that channel was detained by police and purportedly left a video explaining her motives.

0:44.4

They can't arrest us all, she said.

0:47.4

Well, that said, Russian authorities have reportedly arrested thousands since the war

0:51.7

began, and for all that ordinary Russians are risking by protesting the war, ordinary

0:56.9

Ukrainians are risking their lives here every single day, every moment of every day, whether

1:01.9

they go for a walk, like this person that you're about to see who really walked right into

1:08.4

an attack.

1:11.1

Whether they stay in an apartment building, like the one that was hit today in Kiev, the

1:15.3

moment captured on security camera video, now increasingly common moments with Russian

1:19.6

forces now stepping up their shelling of residential buildings in Kiev and elsewhere.

1:25.0

The UN now puts this civilian death toll it upwards of 600, but also added, as it often

1:30.2

does, that the true figures are likely considerably higher, known Mario Polo alone, that officials

1:35.7

there say as many as 2,500 people are already dead.

1:40.2

That number now includes the pregnant woman heard in last week's bombing of the maternity

1:44.3

hospital, Mario Polo, the image was shown around the world and captured in very human terms,

1:50.2

the brutality of the Russian tactics here.

1:53.0

Her name was never released.

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