Zelensky: Russians Locked Ukrainians In School Basement For 3 Weeks

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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CNN's Ed Lavandera tells the story of one village where Ukrainians were held hostage by Russian troops for 3 weeks. Also, according to the U.N. more than five million people have fled Ukraine since Russian began their invasion with more than seven million internally displaced in the country. And since the start of the war, Poland has seen the largest amount of refugees pour over the borders with the latest U.N. data showing nearly three million Ukrainians have escaped to Poland. Anderson spoke with actor, director, screenwriter and producer Liev Schreiber who co-founded Blue Check Ukraine to help vet and support Ukrainian aid groups on the ground. He also recently returned from Poland and Ukraine where he was aiding humanitarian 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 in the capital of Kiev today in Ukraine.
0:03.8	Residents were seen at markets buying food, preparing the Easter holiday meals and buying
0:08.3	families and communities together.
0:11.1	Easter weekend is a major holiday, obviously, for the Christian faithful.
0:13.8	It is also a time to gather and to celebrate the hope of salvation.
0:17.3	Ukraine.
0:18.3	Ukraine.
0:19.3	The 58th day of our defense is coming to an end.
0:24.6	It ends on Good Friday, one of the most sorrowful days of the year for Christians.
0:29.3	The day when death seems to have won, but we hope for a resurrection.
0:34.6	We believe in the victory of life over death, and we pray that death loses.
0:41.9	President Zelensky said that life is beginning to return to normal and the liberated areas
0:45.8	of Ukraine, but life returning also means images like this.
0:50.0	We've just been able to confirm the details of this video.
0:53.2	It's a makeshift grave for a mother and her son.
0:56.4	The video shows two plywood crosses on a grave with two names, Marina Met and Ivan Met,
1:02.5	both died March 5th.
1:04.6	This is in Irpin, just outside Kiev.
1:07.1	And in the neighboring town of Mosheon, new satellite images detail the sheer destruction
1:12.3	brought by the Russian forces, these drone images, extraordinary.
1:16.7	Block after block of ruined lives, destroyed homes.
1:21.2	It's said to have suffered the brunt of a week's long firefight, but is now free from
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