Zelensky: “The Enemy Marked Me As Target Number One”

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Ukraine President Zelensky says he believes Russian sabotage groups have entered the capital of Kyiv and that they’ve marked him as “target number one” and his family as “target number two.” CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward tells Anderson Cooper whether or not Zelensky plans to stay in Kyiv. Plus, President Biden announced new “strong” sanctions on Russia and said Putin “has committed an assault on the very principles that uphold global peace.” David Remnick is an editor for The New Yorker and the author of "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.” He joins AC360 to discuss why Putin wants Ukraine. 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 Ukraine.
0:02.1	Tonight, bracing for what the coming hours might bring.
0:04.5	Already, it's seen Russian forces attack on three fronts with concerns now growing
0:08.2	about what one American lawmaker, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said
0:12.6	could be an imminent move on the Capitol.
0:15.0	Speaking late tonight, Ukraine's President Zelensky said that Russian saboteurs were already
0:19.0	there targeting him.
0:23.3	According to our information, the enemy has marked me as target number one.
0:27.0	My family is target number two.
0:29.1	We want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.
0:33.0	We have information that enemy sabotage groups have entered Kiev.
0:36.6	Secretary of State Blinken spoke to that threat as well tonight on ABC News.
0:43.0	I'm not in a position to comment on exactly what's going on on the ground at this moment,
0:47.1	but we do know, and part of the Russian plan has been to put Kiev in danger to assault
0:53.8	the Capitol.
0:54.8	To go after other major cities, we're seeing forces come in from the north, from the
0:58.4	east, from the south, and that's all part of the plan that we've laid out for the world
1:02.2	in recent weeks.
1:03.2	Your convinced Putin is going to overthrow this government?
1:05.8	I'm convinced he's going to try to do that.
1:07.8	Well, if true, it would be chilling, certainly, but not exactly unknown or unthinkable in
1:12.8	the Russian or the Soviet way of wage and war.
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