U.S. Official: Russia Added 7,000 Troops Around Ukraine
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:32.7 | Up front next, we are live in Ukraine tonight as the United States says Russia has added |
| 0:37.0 | 7,000 more troops along the Ukraine border. |
| 0:40.3 | U.S. officials also now monitoring a new bridge being built just miles from the Ukraine border. |
| 0:45.3 | Plus, we'll take you to a military recruitment center here in Lviv where residents are taking no chances when it comes to protecting their streets and homes. |
| 0:53.9 | And San Francisco's mayor, |
| 0:55.4 | warning the city's children are suffering after Democrats take on their own party, |
| 0:59.5 | ousting three members of the school board. Let's go out front. And good evening, I'm Aaron Burnett. |
| 1:07.8 | Out front tonight, breaking news on the ground here in Ukraine, |
| 1:11.3 | new Russian troops on the border. The United States says Russia has added approximately 7,000 new |
| 1:17.8 | troops in recent days. This is according to a senior U.S. official tonight. Now, this new estimate |
| 1:23.7 | puts the number of Russian forces close to 160,000, about 157,000 more than President |
| 1:30.9 | Biden had mentioned only yesterday, right? And they're saying some of those troops, those 7,000 |
| 1:35.5 | did come in literally today. This comes despite claims from Moscow that they were pulling back |
| 1:40.6 | some troops. U.S. intelligence officials have been raising the alarm saying that that isn't |
| 1:45.9 | true and now also showing us this bridge, less than four miles from the Ukrainian border. You can just |
| 1:50.8 | take a look at your screen there. It was not there on Monday. That one on the left, Monday, there was no |
| 1:55.7 | bridge. There is now a bridge. It's near a mass Russian troop buildup in Belarus, and at least one |
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