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Zelenskyy says U.S. aid is too slow after deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: What's being this hour with the war in Ukraine. Russia
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  Speaker 1: has launched a major offensive overnight on the Ukrainian capital
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  Speaker 1: of Kiev. At least eighteen people have died and dozens
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  Speaker 1: more wounded in Moscow's latest strikes. The Kremlin is vowing
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  Speaker 1: to ramp up pressure on Ukraine to achieve its goals. Earlier,
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  Speaker 1: at the sight of an apartment building hit in last
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  Speaker 1: night's attack, CBS News International reporter Aiden Stretch spoke with
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Voldemar Zelenski.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, BBS News.
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  Speaker 3: We've heard you ask repeatedly for more ballistic defenses from
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  Speaker 3: the United States. You said yesterday that nearly half of
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  Speaker 3: the missiles used were ballistic missiles. Have you received a
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  Speaker 3: response from the United States for those asks?
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  Speaker 2: No, We are.
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  Speaker 4: Thankful for the program.
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  Speaker 2: Thankful to.
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  Speaker 4: European team. They paid for these and they paid already.
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  Speaker 2: And now we have some packages of port.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and with Europe.
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  Speaker 4: And Canada and other partners. And we're thankful to American
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  Speaker 4: team for trans of these missiles. But for today it's
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  Speaker 4: too slow, be honest, too slow. Of course, I count
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  Speaker 4: on the meeting with the American team. During closest days.
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  Speaker 1: We will see what will be.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know what Putin will do and how will
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  Speaker 4: be the all the plans of our meetings and certain
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  Speaker 4: and etcetera. But what the most important And of course
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  Speaker 4: we're asking President Trump his team. Yes, Rush, that's only
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  Speaker 4: one thing, and we don't need you know too much words.
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  Speaker 4: You see, what does it mean when the packages come
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  Speaker 4: to Ukraine slowly? This is a big problem because these
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  Speaker 4: people lost not only their apartments. This is a problem
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  Speaker 4: to lose your whole, your house. They lost their children,
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  Speaker 4: their families, their life. And I think this is the problem,
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  Speaker 4: not the problem.
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  Speaker 1: How to push All right, Aidan is joining us live
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  Speaker 1: right now from Kiev. So Aiden, what more did President
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  Speaker 1: Zelinsky tell you about what he hopes that what he
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  Speaker 1: hopes can be achieved? Because at this point this war
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  Speaker 1: in its third year, it's almost at a stalemate, even
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  Speaker 1: though the Russians have made incourasions into Ukraine, and the
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainians have been able to hit back in some of
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  Speaker 1: the portions of Ukraine that are controlled by the Russians,
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  Speaker 1: but the reality is three years on, there's no end
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  Speaker 1: in sight.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's right, but and I actually I asked him,
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  Speaker 3: the question is Ukraine winning this war right now, and
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  Speaker 3: he sort of looked at me as if that were
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  Speaker 3: the wrong question to be asking. He said, what's most
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  Speaker 3: important is he wants this war to end as quickly
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  Speaker 3: as possible on terms that are okay for Ukraine after
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  Speaker 3: all the fighting that they've done. But he's less concerned
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  Speaker 3: with how people are measuring this war than getting out
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  Speaker 3: of it as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 2: He said, he wants this war to end.
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  Speaker 3: And he pointed to the building behind him where I'm
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  Speaker 3: standing still right now and said, this is what war is.
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  Speaker 3: None of us want this.
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  Speaker 5: Oh sorry, and I thought you were going to a
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  Speaker 5: SoundBite there. My apologies. I would disagree by the way.
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  Speaker 5: I think you did ask the right question because I
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  Speaker 5: think that is that you could tell that in that
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  Speaker 5: moment he wasn't sure how to answer. And those are
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  Speaker 5: the moments in reporting, especially in a place like this,
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  Speaker 5: where we really want to hear that perspective. And so,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we just a little bit talked about where
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  Speaker 5: things go from here. Talk about the devastation though from
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  Speaker 5: these attacks. You're on the ground, you're witnessing it, Describe
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  Speaker 5: the scene.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So last night, I mean, I think what's important,
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  Speaker 3: right now is maybe to just describe how these attacks
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  Speaker 3: have changed, because it will make his answers make a
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  Speaker 3: bit more sense. So earlier this year, when there were
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  Speaker 3: attacks like last night, lots of drones, lots of missiles,
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  Speaker 3: it basically sounded like tens hundreds of lawnmowers flying over
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  Speaker 3: your head.
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  Speaker 2: And that was because the.
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  Speaker 3: Main things that we're getting through and hitting targets like
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  Speaker 3: this were Iranian style shahead drones. These are the drones
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  Speaker 3: that Russia uses for its long range attacks. But you
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  Speaker 3: actually don't see those or hear those much anymore because
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  Speaker 3: Ukraine has mounted an effective defense against them. But what
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  Speaker 3: you do hear and feel, like we all did last night,
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  Speaker 3: are ballistic missiles, which caused much bigger damage. And the
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  Speaker 3: only defense against that that Ukraine has reliably been able
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  Speaker 3: to use is American made Patriot air defense missiles. And
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  Speaker 3: so that's why Bredon Lensky has stressed so much this
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  Speaker 3: need for these missiles. And that's why when I asked
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  Speaker 3: him that question, he was motioning and telling me, this
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  Speaker 3: is what happens when some of that aid comes too slowly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, aiden the other question that I have before we
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  Speaker 1: let you go is in talking to the Ukrainian people.
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  Speaker 1: It strikes me that the Russian military strategy has been
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  Speaker 1: to do what they did last night, right to target
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  Speaker 1: civilians in civilian areas, and the hope being that those
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  Speaker 1: civilians enough civilian pressure will grow on Voldemir's Lensky so
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  Speaker 1: that he capitulates. What are Ukrainian people telling you in
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  Speaker 1: the wake of just another horrific attack by the Russians.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard President Zelensky in the months and years past
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  Speaker 1: say that Ukrainians will never give in to the Russians,
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  Speaker 1: But what are people telling you on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I won't live that. It's like, it's raw,
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  Speaker 2: it's emotional.
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  Speaker 3: People have lost not only their homes, but we've seen
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  Speaker 3: a number of bodies pulled.
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  Speaker 2: Out of here. When you talk to people, they're very emotional.
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  Speaker 3: They can barely speak about this, the folks that are here.
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  Speaker 3: When I'm speaking people morely though, or I often what
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  Speaker 3: are the beast terms that winked up in what they.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually would be out on the streets all right.
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  Speaker 1: We seem to be having a technical issue with Aiden's microphone,
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  Speaker 1: as obviously he's in an active war zone and these
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  Speaker 1: things happened but we thank him and his crew for
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  Speaker 1: that crucial reporting and as you say, Kelly, that very
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  Speaker 1: pointed question to President Zelensky, which as you say, did
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  Speaker 1: have him pause for a moment, because in in in
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  Speaker 1: that moment with the entire world watching, including the United States,
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  Speaker 1: including NATO, including Europe.
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  Speaker 2: And the Russians backdrop.
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  Speaker 1: That he had to be very careful how he entered.
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  Speaker 5: The marketing exactly. So aiden really appreciate that one morning