Zelensky Stands Tall (w/ Mark Savchuk & Dan Hoffman)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
President Zelensky is having one powerful performance after another in defense of his country, Ukraine. He's refusing to back down even as Russian troops close in on his Capitol and the city's frightened residents huddle in air-raid shelters to escape the invaders bombs. The Ukrainians from all accounts are putting up a fierce resistance volunteering in droves to wage battle using aging guns, Molotov cocktails and in some cases their very bodies to slow the Russian advance. But how long can the Ukrainians hang on? And how far is Vladimir Putin prepared to go to crush them? Mark Savchuk, a coordinator for Ukrainian journalists joins us from Kyiv to talk about what's going on right now in the heart of the battle. Also, Dan Hoffman, a former CIA station chief in Moscow, joins to discuss what to make of Putin's bizarre erratic but unbelievably brutal behavior.
GUESTS:
- Mark Savchuk (@SavchukMark), coordinator for Ukrainian journalists
- Dan Hoffman (@danielhoffmanDC), Ret. CIA Station Chief in Moscow
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- The latest from the war in Ukraine - Here.
- Ben Adler's latest Yahoo News piece involving Climate Activism and Ukraine/Russia - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you imagine this morning two prismisiles hit this freedom square dozens of killed ones. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the price of freedom we are fighting just for our land and for our freedom. |
| 0:23.0 | Despite the fact that all our cities of our country are now blocked, nobody is going to enter an intervene with our freedom and country. |
| 0:36.0 | Believe you, me, every square of today, no matter what it's called, is going to be called as today, freedom square in every city of our country. |
| 0:49.0 | Nobody is going to break us where strong, where your train is. |
| 0:56.0 | That's the voice of an interpreter for Volotomir Zelensky choking up as he delivers the Ukrainian president's defiant words to the European Union in Brussels on Tuesday. |
| 1:06.0 | It was another powerful performance by Zelensky, speaking remotely from Kiev, half-shaven and a t-shirt, refusing to back down even as Russian troops closing on his capital, and the city's frightened residents huddle and air-raid shelters to escape the invaders' bombs. |
| 1:23.0 | The Ukrainians, from all accounts, are putting up a fierce resistance, volunteering in droves to wage battle using aging guns, Molotov cocktails, and in some cases, their very bodies to slow the Russian advance. |
| 1:35.0 | But how long can the Ukrainians hang on? And how far is Volotomir Putin prepared to go to crush them? |
| 1:42.0 | We'll talk to Mark Savchuk, a coordinator for Ukrainian journalists about what's going on right now in Kiev. |
| 1:48.0 | And then we'll talk to Daniel Hoffman, a former CIA station chief in Moscow, about what to make of Putin's bizarre, erratic, but unbelievably brutal behavior on this episode of Skoldugger. |
| 2:01.0 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. |
| 2:10.0 | I will, to the best of my building. |
| 2:12.0 | Reserve, protect and defend. Constitution of the United States. So help me, God. |
| 2:18.0 | So help me, God. So help me, God. |
| 2:20.0 | Don't help me, God. |
| 2:21.0 | Don't help me, God. |
| 2:22.0 | Don't help me, God. |
| 2:23.0 | I'm Michael Isgop, Chief Investigator correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 2:27.0 | I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 2:30.0 | And I'm Victoria Besedi, a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. |
| 2:33.0 | Watching what's unfolding in Ukraine right now is so horrific, but I think it is worth once again taking a moment out to just talk about Zelensky emerging as I said the other day. |
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