Ukrainian Civilians Killed By Russian Missiles During Evacuation

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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A Russian missile strike on a train station used as an evacuation hub in the Eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, kills at least 50 people and leaves more than 100 injured. Russia blames Ukraine for the attack, saying it did it to its own people. But the U.S. assesses it was a Russian short-range ballistic missile fired from a Russian position, inside Ukraine.CNN learns Donald Trump Jr. texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows ideas for overturning the 2020 Election on the 5th of November, before the race was called, stating, "We have multiple paths. We control them all". Plus, Moscow forces the closure of Amnesty International and Human Right Watch Offices in Russia, CNN goes inside Chernobyl after Russians withdraw, and the U.S. assists Ukraine In receiving the ‘S-300 Air Defense System’ from Slovakia.Hosted by Jake Tapper, live from Lviv. 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	I'm Jake Tapper.
0:02.2	This is CNN Tonight Live from Levy View, Ukraine more than six weeks into this bloody
0:06.7	Russian invasion.
0:08.2	The U.S. Department says, quote, we can no longer be surprised by the Kremlin's repugnant
0:12.8	disregard for human lives, unquote.
0:15.6	Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, calling Russian military strikes, killing civilians,
0:19.8	quote, an evil that has no limits.
0:22.6	You put out a new message this evening for the world that will show you in a moment.
0:26.6	The world responded today to yet another Russian targeting of civilians in this instance.
0:31.6	It's civilians that were trying to escape the hell of this war.
0:35.0	They were at a jam-packed train station in Kramatorsk in the eastern region of Donbass.
0:41.8	Another warning, the images were about to show you are very graphic.
0:44.8	They are very disturbing, but we cannot look away from this reality.
1:10.6	It was horrifying screams, the haunting scramble for cover after Russia fired what is believed,
1:16.0	to have been a short-range ballistic missile directly on this crowd of women, children,
1:21.9	men, and the elderly at least 50 were killed, including five children, at least 98 wounded,
1:27.7	including 16 children.
1:29.9	Ukrainian military authorities say the missile contained cluster munitions, more commonly,
1:34.6	called a cluster bomb.
1:35.6	It's a cruel device designed for propelling secondary sub munitions to kill as many people
1:41.5	as possible.
1:43.0	Written in Russian on the missile were the words, quote, for the children.
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