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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20220224 05:34:00

Forces are also among that invasion force that is currently apparently moving into ukraine, that is something that we have yet to confirm. but certainly, the russians would not be able to do that if they didn t have the permission of alexander lukashenko, which in any days, they would get because he is dependent on vladimir putin but also the aid of the belarusian military as well to use staging areas, to use military bases in belarus, and also to use transport within belarus as well. so, you know, one of the things the biden administration said um a couple weeks ago they said that belarus would pay a very heavy price if it were to aid russia in invading ukraine or if and if an invasion were launched from belarusian territory. certainly, that seems to be the case. and and i think, also, don, the other thing is that it it s coming to light, as we are reporting here, just how big this invasion is. just how widespread it is. if you look at the amount of of of of kilometers, o ....

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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20220224 05:31:00

That on that video into ukraine and as matthew was pointing out, the fastest way for an invasion force to get to the ukrainian capital of kyiv is exactly from belarus. there is a pretty new road actually ukrainians built to try try and increase traffic, try and increase trade with belarus when the relations were still better. it really is a very quick way to get to the capital of kyiv. so this is definitely a very worrying development we are seeing here, and of course on top of that we have to keep in mind there is this large russian force on russian territory where there are obviously a lot of people who believe, as jim sciutto was pointing out. that some of these air strikes we have been seeing, missile strikes where we have heard them launch from here, from this very location, those are there to soften up the the battlefield for a possible ground invasion that could come and you know one of the things that we saw in the past couple of days as we have been roaming around the ....

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