Zelensky: Putin Could Use Nuclear Weapons

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In an exclusive CNN interview, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sits down with Jake Tapper to warn the world that Russia could eventually use nuclear weapons. Ukrainian officials estimate about 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have already died in the war, compared to Zelensky’s estimates that Russia's military casualties are between 19,000 to 20,000. 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	This is CNN Breaking News.
0:06.3	I'm looking out on the capital city of Kiev on day 51 of Russia's brutal invasion
0:12.2	of Ukraine.
0:13.2	I'm Jake Tapper.
0:14.2	Welcome to this special broadcast of the lead live from Ukraine.
0:17.6	We're going to get to today's top headlines in my exclusive interview with Ukrainian President
0:22.2	Volodymyr Zelensky in just a moment, but first I do want to pause and reflect on the
0:27.6	human cost of this horrific war on victims young and old, those whose names we know, those
0:33.5	whom we don't.
0:34.8	The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shared this image of a blood-soaked stuffed horse left
0:40.5	behind after the deadly massacre on a train station full of evacuees in the town of Kramatorsk
0:45.9	one week ago today.
0:47.8	The government says Ukrainian National Police will send this child's toy to the United
0:52.9	Nations as evidence of what happened that day, evidence of a war crime.
0:58.7	One that left seven children dead, five were killed that day, two more succumbed to their
1:03.4	wounds only recently.
1:05.7	We do not know if this stuffed animal's owner survived, but I'd like to ask you to think
1:10.2	for a moment, just a moment today, about its possible owner, a child.
1:16.3	Maybe told he or she can only bring one toy with them when they finally got a chance
1:20.8	to flee their town.
1:22.8	One beloved toy and he or she chose this one.
1:26.9	Now it's headed to the United Nations and it's soaked in innocent blood.
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