WEBVTT 00:01.433 --> 00:03.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: Today, the death toll from a Russian strike in 00:03.100 --> 00:06.633 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40, with dozens still missing. 00:06.633 --> 00:11.266 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% It was one of the deadliest single incidents of the war and comes at the beginning of a pivotal 00:11.266 --> 00:16.266 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% week for Western efforts to provide Ukraine heavy weapons, including tanks. Rescue efforts in 00:18.266 --> 00:21.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Dnipro continue, but officials acknowledge that there is little hope of finding anyone alive. 00:23.800 --> 00:28.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% In the residential building that is torn in two, death is still far too easy to find. 00:30.633 --> 00:34.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Today, emergency workers hoped to rescue the injured. So far, they have only needed body bags. 00:36.166 --> 00:39.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Across the street, a makeshift memorial. In a war that has 00:39.733 --> 00:43.766 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% already caused so much destruction and stolen even the most innocent, 00:43.766 --> 00:48.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% neighbors wonder why they survived and can only hope their prayers protect the dead. 00:50.733 --> 00:53.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% WOMAN (through translator): All of us could be in that place, people, children. 00:53.433 --> 00:58.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: Saturday's strike buried hundreds of people under the 00:58.233 --> 01:01.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% rubble. The Russian missile hit in the middle of a residential neighborhood, 01:01.666 --> 01:06.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% one of Russia's deadliest attacks on civilians in nearly 11 months of war. 01:08.533 --> 01:11.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% It struck at night, the massive apartment complex it hit obliterated, 01:11.500 --> 01:15.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% the pain of a mother who watched her son die unspeakable. 01:15.800 --> 01:20.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% WOMAN (through translator): What did you kill him for? What did you do to my son? May you be 01:22.933 --> 01:26.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% damned for the whole of your lives by everybody, by me personally and by all the mothers' tears. 01:28.966 --> 01:31.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: The attack coincided with the Orthodox new year celebrated by both Ukrainians 01:31.833 --> 01:36.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% and Russians. Online, Ukrainians post videos of families inside the apartment building before 01:38.500 --> 01:42.066 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and the same kitchen after it was ripped open. 01:42.066 --> 01:47.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it terrorism and said Ukraine would not lose hope. 01:49.433 --> 01:51.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, Ukrainian President (through translator): We fighting for every person. The 01:51.433 --> 01:55.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% rescue operation will last as long as there is even the slightest chance to save lives. 01:55.933 --> 01:59.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: And he used the attack to once again criticize 01:59.000 --> 02:01.733 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Russians for not criticizing the war enough. 02:01.733 --> 02:06.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY (through translator): I want to say to all those in Russia and from Russia, 02:06.400 --> 02:09.100 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% your cowardly silence, your attempt to wait out 02:09.100 --> 02:13.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% what is happening will only end with the same terrorists coming for you one day. 02:13.200 --> 02:16.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: Today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said 02:16.666 --> 02:19.300 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% the building was actually struck by a Ukrainian missile. 02:19.300 --> 02:21.200 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% DMITRY PESKOV, Spokesman for Vladimir Putin (through translator): 02:21.200 --> 02:25.433 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The Russian armed forces do not strike neither residential buildings nor the 02:25.433 --> 02:29.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% sites of civilian infrastructure. The strikes are aimed at military targets. 02:29.733 --> 02:34.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: To strengthen its military, Ukraine has asked for Western tanks to upgrade 02:36.800 --> 02:40.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% its mostly Soviet era armor. And now, for the first time, the West will provide them. 02:42.966 --> 02:45.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% This weekend, the United Kingdom announced it will send 14 Challenger 2 tanks. Today, in Parliament, 02:47.900 --> 02:51.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the tanks would help Ukraine achieve -- quote -- 02:51.600 --> 02:56.566 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% "victory." And he urged Germany to send its tanks, the Leopard 2, which Ukraine has prioritized. 02:59.066 --> 03:01.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% BEN WALLACE, British Defense Secretary: There's a debate in Germany at the moment about whether 03:01.633 --> 03:04.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% a tank is an offensive weapon or defensive weapon. Well, it depends on what you're using it for. If 03:04.600 --> 03:09.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% you're using it to defend your country, I would wager that it is a defensive weapon system. 03:09.333 --> 03:11.466 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% GEN. PHILIP BREEDLOVE (RET.), Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander: They have better battlefield 03:11.466 --> 03:16.133 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% mobility. They bring more firepower and, most importantly, they bring much more sophisticated 03:18.300 --> 03:23.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% targeting capabilities, allowing them to shoot and kill first on the battlefield. 03:24.766 --> 03:27.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: Retired General Philip Breedlove is the former 03:27.600 --> 03:31.966 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% supreme allied commander of NATO and the U.S.' top European commander. 03:31.966 --> 03:36.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% Tactically, how much of a difference can 14 British tanks really make to the Ukrainian army? 03:38.533 --> 03:42.033 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% GEN. PHILIP BREEDLOVE: Tactically, very little. But in breaking that 03:42.033 --> 03:47.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% policy hold on this kind of equipment, we hope now that nations will begin to 03:48.966 --> 03:52.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% supply more sufficient numbers that will then have a big effect on the battlefield. 03:53.700 --> 03:57.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: Poland has promised to send its Leopards, 03:57.200 --> 04:00.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and Finland could follow if Germany gives approval. 04:00.233 --> 04:03.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki: 04:03.733 --> 04:07.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI, Polish Prime Minister: The battle for our freedom, our future is raging 04:07.533 --> 04:12.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% as we speak. And if we have been investing for years in heavy war equipment, in tanks, 04:14.566 --> 04:19.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% they must not be left to rest in storehouses, but be placed in the hands of Europe's defenders. 04:21.300 --> 04:25.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: Ukraine urges the U.S. to follow with its M1A1 Abrams tanks. 04:27.466 --> 04:30.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And Breedlove and others urge the U.S. to go further and send longer-range 04:30.600 --> 04:34.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% systems the administration has so far blocked, for fear of escalating the war. 04:34.833 --> 04:37.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Do you think Washington should be afraid of escalation? 04:37.766 --> 04:42.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GEN. PHILIP BREEDLOVE: Well, to say that we shouldn't consider it and think about 04:43.933 --> 04:47.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% it would be foolish, but to be deterred by it, 04:49.733 --> 04:52.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% which I believe we are, in a large way deterred by this fear, that is a problem. 04:54.700 --> 04:58.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The bottom line is, right now, speed is of the essence. 04:58.933 --> 05:02.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% NICK SCHIFRIN: But, right now, there's little Ukraine can do to prevent Russian 05:02.733 --> 05:07.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% strikes on civilians. And so Ukrainians fear they face more days like today.