U.S.: Russia Has Added 7,000 Troops Along Ukraine Border

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The U.S. says Russia has added 7,000 troops along the Ukraine border, directly contradicting Moscow’s claims they’ve been pulling back its forces. Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) is a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. He tells AC360 he “absolutely” thinks the addition of troops increases the likelihood of a Russian invasion. Plus, a six-year-old girl, who has been missing since 2019, was found hidden underneath a wooden staircase with her noncustodial mother. At age 14, Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home and found nine months later. She’s now a child safety activist. She joins AC360 to discuss her own experience after being found and how important it is to never give up hope. 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	Russian justifications for attacking Ukraine are phony.
0:05.1	Russian military preparations, in the other hand, are real and growing.
0:09.3	John Berman here in Ferandrasen, that is the double-barrel warning tonight on an off-camera
0:13.9	from the Biden administration.
0:15.5	Beware of what Russia says, keep an eye on what it's doing.
0:19.8	As in, pumping more troops into the region, 7,000 more in recent days, according to a senior
0:24.6	administration official just before airtime.
0:27.4	This puts the total north of the 150,000-figure president Biden used just yesterday.
0:32.6	In other words, not the pullback Russia has been talking about.
0:36.1	The New York Times tonight, quoting a senior administration official, is saying, they
0:40.3	received a lot of attention for that claim, both here and around the world, but we now know
0:44.6	it was false.
0:45.8	In other words, they were lying.
0:48.6	Another ominous sign.
0:49.8	This tactical bridge in a series of approach roads under construction in Belarus, just
0:54.4	four miles from the Ukraine border, and just a short drive from there to keep.
0:59.6	A source in a position to know tells CNN that Russia is building bridges, field hospitals,
1:04.3	and other support infrastructure, which is why in this source's words, we aren't really
1:08.6	taking seriously their claims of de-escalation, something the administration echoed on camera
1:13.8	as well.
1:16.2	To be very, very clear, we have not seen that.
1:19.9	In fact, we have seen the opposite in recent weeks and even in recent dates.
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