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Laura Coates Live

U.N. Suspends Russia From Human Rights Council

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The world takes further action to isolate Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, with the U.N. voting to suspend Putin's regime from the Human Rights Council. Ukrainian officials say major fighting is underway on the shifting battlefield as Russian forces target Donbas, and a top U.S. General warns the Ukraine war will be a "long slog".CNN learns America is actively providing Intelligence to Ukraine's military for operations against Russians, in Eastern Ukraine. Plus, a Putin spokesman admits to “significant” troop losses in Ukraine, and Russia is accused of taking Ukrainians to “filtration centers”.Hosted by Jake Tapper, live from Lviv, Ukraine. 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

I'm Jake Tapper and this is CNN Tonight Live from Levy in Western Ukraine with

0:06.1

breaking developments this evening. On the shifting battlefield in the east of

0:11.0

this country, the fight for Don Bos is well underway. This is a region that has

0:14.9

been partly occupied by Russians for years. That's very much the heart of the

0:21.3

justification for this Putin invasion. Fighting we are told is intensifying in

0:26.8

the southeast territory as many civilians struggle to escape. Ukraine's foreign

0:31.8

minister is predicting that the scale, the scale of this face-off in Don Bos will

0:37.2

look like World War II warning that the heaviest battles are yet to come

0:41.6

pleading with NATO to send more weapons. ASAP and we are learning for the very

0:48.8

first time from a top US official that America is actively providing intelligence

0:53.8

to Ukraine's military for operations against Russians and Don Bos. More to come

0:57.6

on that major acknowledgement. The world is also taking further action to

1:03.3

isolate Russia. The UN General Assembly voting today to suspend Putin's regime

1:08.0

from the Human Rights Council as president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky,

1:13.5

points out tonight Russia has clearly been violating the rights of humans. After

1:23.3

Buccia, this is already obvious and the work on dismantling the debris in

1:28.6

Boryanka began. It's much worse there. 26 bodies were found under the rubble of

1:37.0

two houses in the Kiev suburb of Boryanka today after Russian

1:41.4

Air strikes. Again, those are only two houses according to Ukraine's prosecutor

1:46.9

general. Imagine how many more, more proof of the inhumanity all hospitals in

1:53.9

the Don Bos territory of Lohansk have now been destroyed according to one

1:58.5

regional leader, hospitals destroyed. All of them, Russians keep targeting them in

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