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Zelenskyy urges U.S. to save Ukrainian lives after Russian strikes on Kyiv · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: We want to take you now back to the Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: capital of Kiev, where CBS News International reporter Aidan Stretch
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  Speaker 1: is speaking to Kraine's President Voldemir Zelensky after Moscow launched
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  Speaker 1: some significant strikes on the capitol. Let's listen in he.
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  Speaker 2: Will you so right now they're telling us that this
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  Speaker 2: president is telling us that Putin's in a weak position
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  Speaker 2: and that he needs to be stronger. Mister president.
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  Speaker 1: Was a probably probably.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: You with Lascaza Patania Anlesko's the CBS News. We've heard
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  Speaker 4: you ask repeatedly for more ballistic defenses from the United States.
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  Speaker 4: You said yesterday that nearly half of the missiles used
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  Speaker 4: were ballistic missiles. Have you received a response from the
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  Speaker 4: United States for those asks.
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  Speaker 5: We are thankful for the program, thankful to European team.
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  Speaker 5: They pay for this, and they paid already and now
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  Speaker 5: we have some packages of w yeah, and with Europe
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  Speaker 5: and Canada and other partners, and we're thankful to American
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  Speaker 5: team for transfer of these missiles. But for today it's
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  Speaker 5: too slow, be honest, too slow. Of course, I count
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  Speaker 5: on the meeting with the American team. During closest days,
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  Speaker 5: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: What will be.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know what which you will do and what
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  Speaker 5: how will be the all the plans of our meetings and.
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  Speaker 4: Etcetera.
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  Speaker 5: But what the most important And of course we're asking
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  Speaker 5: President Trump his team. Yes, Rush, that's only one thing,
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  Speaker 5: and we don't need you know too much words you
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  Speaker 5: see what does it mean when the packages come to
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  Speaker 5: Ukraine slowly? This is a big problem because these people
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  Speaker 5: lost not only their apartments, This is a problem to
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  Speaker 5: lose your whole, your house. They lost their children, their families,
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  Speaker 5: their life. And I think this is the problem, not
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  Speaker 5: the problem how to push missiles quickly?
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  Speaker 1: They have to work.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry. I understand that the right a lot
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  Speaker 5: of internal questions in the United States, and I know
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  Speaker 5: in Europe and all Europe, all Europe, the United States,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of different countries live from elections to elections.
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  Speaker 5: US very understandable, but please, the priority is to save lives,
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  Speaker 5: Ukrainian lives.
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  Speaker 2: Whenhen's the last time that you heard from Steve Wikoff,
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  Speaker 2: Jared Kushner or another member of the president's team, and
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  Speaker 2: do you expect them to re engage with negotiations soon.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday was a conversation between I think oumrav and Kush yes,
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  Speaker 5: and the day before, yesterday and etc.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean this.
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  Speaker 5: They said weeks or I don't know, may months ago
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  Speaker 5: that they will come to Ukraine. They have to come
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  Speaker 5: to see to understand and to explain to president and
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  Speaker 5: then to answer in a very polite manner, how Steve
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  Speaker 5: Wilkov ken to Russia? What they what they have to
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  Speaker 5: do quickly see Nigashi stop this war. And that's why
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  Speaker 5: we wanted them to come to us as I think
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  Speaker 5: quite a long period of times. I hope that they
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  Speaker 5: will come. Yes, and I understand that there are challenges
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  Speaker 5: in the Middle East. As I said, we are thankful
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  Speaker 5: for their position that they want to help and et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: But we need more more than words.
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  Speaker 2: Mister President, would you say that Ukraine is winning this war?
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  Speaker 5: Ukraine Russia is losing. Ukrainians will win this war, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure, and but to win is you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: such such difficult question. If the question is fight many
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  Speaker 5: years to win or to stop tomorrow this war, all
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  Speaker 5: our people me of course, we will choose stop the ward.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we're asking that, That's why we're asking our
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  Speaker 5: partners more treasure in puting stop this war because he's
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  Speaker 5: not winning, because he is losing. At the end of
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  Speaker 5: the days, he will lose everything. That's why it's also
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  Speaker 5: in his interest between us. I'm not thinking about his interests.
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  Speaker 2: It's yeah, okay, allusion.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Aiden, Aiden stretched, there are correspondent in Kiev
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  Speaker 6: speaking there directly with President Voldemar Zelensky in Kiev. There
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  Speaker 6: you saw Aiden in real time asking President voldemir's Olinsky
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  Speaker 6: some very key questions, including whether or not President Zelensky
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  Speaker 6: had heard from the special envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared
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  Speaker 6: Kushner or any member of the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're just joining us now, Aiden is reporting
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  Speaker 1: live from Kiev in the wake of those devastating strikes
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  Speaker 1: by Russia on the Ukrainian capital. What else did Zelnisky
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  Speaker 1: have to say to you.
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  Speaker 7: Aiden, Well, I think one thing that struck me and
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  Speaker 7: struck all of us here is that he kept motioning
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  Speaker 7: as he was speaking to the apartment behind him. He's,
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  Speaker 7: of course, I was asking him diplomatic questions, and he
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  Speaker 7: said those are far less important than what you can
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  Speaker 7: do if you're an American or you anybody else and
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  Speaker 7: you come here and you see the life lost and
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  Speaker 7: the destruction in the wake of these attacks. The other
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  Speaker 7: thing that he said is that he continues to request
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  Speaker 7: defenses against ballistic missiles. Nearly half of the missiles used
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  Speaker 7: last night, there were seventy four of them, nearly half
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  Speaker 7: of them were ballistic missiles, and Ukraine does not have
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  Speaker 7: a reliable defense against those except for patriot air defense interceptors,
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  Speaker 7: which are only manufactured in the United States in a
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  Speaker 7: handful of other countries, and he's saying he needs more.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Aidan, really appreciate you bringing us that and
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  Speaker 3: excellent reporting. I know it is not easy in those
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  Speaker 3: situations to get your question in. You were able to
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  Speaker 3: keep President Zelensky for quite some time. Really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, aid an excellent job, and I think a yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was excellent reporting by Aiden Stretch there in.
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  Speaker 6: Kiev and Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: The thing that struck me is in listening to President
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  Speaker 1: Zelenski two points one. He alluded to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: whilst he is thankful for the support that the United
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  Speaker 1: States and Canada and the countries who have been supporting
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's three year effort to try and at least end
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  Speaker 1: this war, if not outright defeat the Russian military. Is
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  Speaker 1: that we live in a world of election cycles, and
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  Speaker 1: those election cycles mean that for the American people, and
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  Speaker 1: by that very nature are elected officials, that their attentions
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  Speaker 1: can vary from cycle to cycle, from month to month,
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  Speaker 1: from quarter to quarter, depending on what's happening economically. And
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  Speaker 1: for the Ukrainians, they don't have the luxury of thinking
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  Speaker 1: about an election or thinking about the midterms or even
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. They're in this every single day. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing that I thought was interesting is the Ukrainians
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  Speaker 1: have been launching missile strikes into Russia, the idea being
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  Speaker 1: that perhaps the Russian people will have enough economic and
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  Speaker 1: military pain inflicted on them that they pressure Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 1: to end the war. But in that scenario, it feels
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  Speaker 1: that Putin is in a more stable position than perhaps
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  Speaker 1: Selenski is.
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  Speaker 3: And look what I'm about to say, it might be
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  Speaker 3: an unpopular statement that while we are obviously touched by
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  Speaker 3: the devastation, there's another part of this where you know,
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  Speaker 3: these countries, the US included, have to consider whether continuing
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  Speaker 3: to support four years sending more and more that perhaps
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  Speaker 3: it's more about the negotiations versus pouring more money and
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  Speaker 3: more resources. It is, you know, caught between a rock
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  Speaker 3: and a hard place. But the President has been very
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  Speaker 3: clear it is America first, and that is something that
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  Speaker 3: he has led with. And so you know, you hear
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  Speaker 3: presidents Lensky ask for those weapons, for the money, for
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  Speaker 3: the ability to fight back against Russia. And I can
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  Speaker 3: imagine some of those conversations may be hard of how
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  Speaker 3: do you keep going there if there isn't meaningful movement?
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  Speaker 3: And that's why you expect those negotiations to be perhaps
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  Speaker 3: where they can achieve something.
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  Speaker 1: And what's clear is that whilst the President has lauded
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  Speaker 1: his connection, his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that
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  Speaker 1: has not worn any fruit here in trying to end
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  Speaker 1: this war. All right again, Aiden Stretch reporting from Kiev.
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  Speaker 1: Those are live pictures you're seeing there of President's Olenski
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  Speaker 1: touring the damage after devastating Russian strikes overnight in the
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Aiden still on the ground. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he'll be reporting all throughout the day. You're on
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  Speaker 1: CBS News twenty four to seven