Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | When you think that you have to close one war and then, you know, mediate another, I think that |
| 0:17.0 | it doesn't work this way. With Ukraine's future now tied to the war on Iran, |
| 0:23.1 | President Volodymyr Zelensky joins me to discuss |
| 0:25.7 | how he has to compete for America's attention. |
| 0:29.2 | And are President Trump's apocalyptic threats, |
| 0:32.9 | warning of the death of a whole civilization and such, |
| 0:35.7 | only words? |
| 0:37.0 | Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism, |
| 0:40.3 | reads between the lines of Donald Trump's messages. |
| 0:43.3 | Then, |
| 0:44.3 | This really is just a catastrophe that continues to pile on |
| 0:47.3 | for the people of Sudan. |
| 0:49.3 | Three brutal years of war in Sudan. |
| 0:51.3 | Harry Sreenovassan speaks with Mercy Corps CEO, Jada McKenna, who's just returned from that |
| 0:58.0 | devastated region. |
| 1:22.3 | Thank you. Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Christiana Manpur in London. |
| 1:29.6 | Four years of virtual stalemate in Ukraine, now could the outcome of this war with Russia depend on Iran? |
| 1:34.3 | Both Kiev and the Kremlin are trying to use this other war to their own advantage. |
| 1:40.8 | President Zelensky visited the Middle East offering battle-tested expertise and experience on fending off Iran's drone attacks, while Russia reportedly backs Iran with critical intelligence and weapons support. |
| 1:47.9 | And for now, it gains from soaring global oil prices. |
| 1:52.2 | President Zelenskyy says every dollar Putin makes is more fuel for his war. |
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