Ukrainian Authorities Prepare For Russian Reinforcements in Donbas
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jake Tapper. This is CNN Tonight Live from Levy, Ukraine. At the beginning of yet |
| 0:06.3 | another ominous week, Putin's army can be seen readying for a major new offensive in |
| 0:12.6 | the east of this country. And tonight those forces have a new commander, one specifically |
| 0:17.2 | known for his cruelty with a history of targeting civilians. He's known as the Butcher of Syria. |
| 0:24.5 | As brutal as Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine have been already replete with |
| 0:29.7 | atrocities and slaughtered women and children, the fear is now that the worst could be yet |
| 0:35.5 | to come here. Also, at Bear's noting that if you don't change a commander, if you're |
| 0:41.0 | winning a war, so there's a real fear this invasion could turn even more brutal than what |
| 0:46.8 | we've already seen. Here was the Pentagon today on that eight mile long Russian convoy |
| 0:52.4 | believed to be headed for the Donbass region. Another convoy of vehicles that are heading |
| 1:00.4 | south towards that town of Isyam. We believe these are the early stages of a reinforcement |
| 1:08.1 | effort by the Russians in the Donbass. CNN has geo-located this new video that shows |
| 1:15.9 | this large column of Russian military vehicles inside Russian, not far from the eastern |
| 1:21.2 | border of Ukraine. Vehicles are seeing facing northwest in the direction of Donbass. There |
| 1:27.2 | is also new tape tonight of an alleged Ukrainian strike, Ukrainian strike on a Russian weapons |
| 1:33.2 | depot in the Luhansk region of Donbass. Ukrainian officials claim that they destroyed an ammunition |
| 1:39.7 | warehouse there and you can see burned out shells and rockets scattered all over the ground. |
| 1:45.3 | Meanwhile, weeks of relentless bombardment in the southern port city of Mariopol have |
| 1:50.8 | left tens of thousands dead according to Ukrainian president of a Lodomir Zalinsky. This |
| 1:56.5 | is new drone video that shows the theater, as you may recall, where hundreds were killed |
| 2:02.2 | last month in Mariopol while seeking shelter. Many of them women and children, 183 children |
| 2:08.7 | have reportedly been killed so far in this invasion with hundreds more wounded. According |
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