U.S.: Russian Ground Forces Stop Moving Toward Kyiv

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Ukrainian forces have retaken towns and defensive positions on Kyiv’s eastern outskirts. A U.S. defense officials tells CNN Russian forces have stopped “any interests in terms of ground movements” towards the capital city. Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling is a former Army Commanding General for Europe and the Seventh Army. He joins Anderson Cooper to discuss the Ukrainian’s territory gains and the Russian military strategy. Plus, CNN’s Senior International Correspondent Ivan Watson visited a children’s ward hospital in Zaporizhzhia. He tells AC360 the story of a little girl who was shot in the face by a Russian soldier while trying to flee her home with her family.Guests: Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.), Ivan Watson.Airdate: March 25, 2022 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 there are potential signs tonight of what could be a change in Russian war
0:05.0	aims in Ukraine, even as the definite signs of trouble for Russian forces on the ground
0:09.5	are piling up.
0:11.0	Remember just a day ago, Russia's foreign ministry was saying the war was going to
0:14.2	according to plan.
0:15.2	Well, today, top Russian general shifted focus away from that plan, which, by the way,
0:19.9	was Vladimir Putin's stated plan towards more limited goals.
0:23.6	The question now was he moving the goalposts.
0:25.6	Well, ask her correspondence, military analysts in the two hours ahead.
0:28.9	First, though, a new video from inside the theater in Mariopol that Russian forces hit
0:33.7	the same theater with the word Russian word for children, written big enough on both sides
0:38.0	of it to be seen from space.
0:40.2	Today, in addition to learning from an advisor to Mariopol's mayor that as many as 900
0:44.7	people may have been sheltering there at the time, we also got video, which we've
0:48.8	subtitled just moments after the strike.
0:53.2	The rocket hit the center of the theater.
0:59.3	And the fire hit the center of the theater.
1:02.1	We would have fought for the first time in the first place, but the fire hit the people
1:06.4	that were hiding from the shooting.
1:11.8	And the fire hit the center of the theater.
1:17.6	The people came to the water.
1:19.5	Now, the advisor, Mariopol's mayor, said today that approximately 300 people were killed
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