Zelensky: Defending And Protecting Ukraine Is “A Struggle For Life”

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky says defending and protecting the country is “a struggle for life” after heavy fighting continues in Eastern Ukraine and a journalist was killed and several others were injured in a missile attack on Kyiv. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko joins AC360 to discuss the message Russia is sending by bombing the capital city. Plus, the mayor of Mariupol says that more than 600 people were injured in a Russian bombing that struck the makeshift hospital facility in the besieged Azovstal steel plant. Yuriy Ryzhenkov is the CEO of the company that owns the plant. He gives Anderson Cooper an update on the evacuation efforts. 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 air raid sirens were heard again here tonight as key deals with the fact that
0:05.8	driving Russian ground troops away from the city does not make it immune from Russian air
0:10.6	attack, namely the cruise missile strike last night.
0:14.2	When we left you reports where the ten people had been wounded in that attack, today rescuers
0:18.8	removed a body from the rubble of the high rise apartment that was hit.
0:22.6	A woman named Vera Hirich, a Ukrainian journalist with radio free Europe radio liberty.
0:27.6	She was 54 years old and is the 23rd member of the media to be killed since the Russian
0:32.9	invasion began.
0:34.6	Russia says the missile was aimed at a nearby defense plant, landed not far from where
0:38.7	the U.N. Secretary General Gutierrez was at the time.
0:42.0	Keves Mayer, tonight called it Vladimir Putin's raised middle finger to the Secretary General.
0:46.6	You'll hear more from my conversation with Mayor Klitschko in the program.
0:51.3	We also learned more details today in the death of American and former Marine Willie Joseph
0:55.9	Kansl killed fighting alongside Ukrainian troops.
0:59.6	The White House today offering condolences and cautioning Americans against coming here
1:04.3	to fight.
1:05.6	Just a short time ago Kansl's mother spoke to CNN.
1:10.9	He believes in what they were fighting for.
1:20.8	He just was something that hit to his heart and he knew they needed help.
1:29.7	It was just something that he felt that he could help him because he had the experience
1:35.1	and the training and the knowledge to go and help them.
1:41.9	A more in that coming up, including the questions that raises, what contracting company hired
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