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Amanpour

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

After days of transatlantic wrangling and who’s-on-first gamesmanship, Ukraine receives a double whammy, with both the United States and Germany publicly pledging to send advanced tanks ahead of a projected Russian spring offensive. The past few days have also brought a corruption scandal out into the open, as Kyiv purges several senior officials, including the deputy defense minister. Tonight, Christiane speaks with his boss, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.  Also on today's show: Ronen Bergman, Staff writer, The New York Times Magazine; Martin Griffiths, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; Rev. Liz Walker, Co-founder, Embrace Boston & Hank Willis Thomas, Artist, “The Embrace.” To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amampur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

In a big breakthrough, the West sends tanks to Ukraine I discuss their impact on the battlefield

0:16.7

with Defense Minister Alexi Reznikov.

0:19.2

Then I talk to the award-winning Israeli journalist Ronan Bergman about the US taking arms from

0:25.3

Israel and diverting them to Ukraine amid an internal Israeli political crisis.

0:31.2

And we must get with him back to work in humanitarian operations and we must

0:35.4

enable them to go to school at parks. As Afghanistan's humanitarian crisis

0:40.3

worsens what the Taliban told the UN

0:43.2

Chief Martin Griffiths.

0:45.1

Also ahead.

0:46.1

What you see says as much about you

0:48.6

and how you see the world as it does say about the work.

0:51.8

Sculptor Hank Willis Thomas on his much-discussed monument

0:55.6

to MLK and his wife Corretta.

0:58.1

He speaks to Michelle Martin alongside the Reverend Liz Walker

1:01.6

who led fundraising efforts for the statue. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. After days of

1:25.6

transatlantic wrangling and who's on first gamesmanship, Ukraine now receives a

1:31.3

welcome double whammy.

1:33.0

Both the United States and Germany publicly pledging

1:36.3

to send advanced tanks ahead of a projected Russian Spring offensive.

1:41.0

President Biden saying that the United States and Europe remain unified as the war continues.

1:47.0

As you all know, I've been saying this for a long time.

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