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Anderson Cooper 360

Zelensky: Russians Killed Civilians For “Pleasure”

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a graphic account of the situation in his country in his remarks to the UN Security Council saying Russians killed civilians in Bucha for “pleasure” and “there is not a single crime they would not commit there.” Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel joins AC360 to discuss if he thinks the U.S. level of involvement on the ground should change. Plus, Chef José Andrés and his World Central Kitchen crew were one of the first humanitarian efforts inside Bucha. He tells Anderson Cooper about delivering meals to residents and how appreciative they were. 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.

0:01.0

We begin tonight with the grim fact of a prediction come true in Ukraine and the awful

0:05.6

truth that it won't be for the first time.

0:08.3

Former president of the country made the prediction just yesterday in the wake of the atrocities

0:11.9

uncovered in liberated Butchia.

0:14.2

Don't be mistaken.

0:15.2

He said Butchia is not alone.

0:17.5

And it was not.

0:18.5

It would be too much to hope for given all we've seen so far.

0:21.5

So little prepares you for images like these.

0:24.1

This is a town called Burad-Yanka, which is just north of Kiev.

0:28.5

Our Frederick Plykton spent the day there and he's seen his report tonight in addition

0:32.2

to the sheer destruction of civilian areas he found graphic evidence of atrocities.

0:37.0

So Butchia was not alone nor is Bornyanka likely to be according to Ukraine's president

0:41.8

Zelensky who dressed the U.N. Security Council today.

0:47.8

The massacre in our city of Butchia is only one.

0:51.6

Unfortunately only one of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our

0:57.6

land for the past 41 days.

1:00.8

And there are many more cities similar places where the world has yet to learn the full

1:06.7

truth.

1:07.7

Maria Uppel, Kharkiv, Chernobyl, Tyrka, Borodjan, and dozens other Ukrainian communities.

1:15.0

Each of them is similar to Butchia.

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