>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY! WE'RE BACK WITH ANDERSON COOPER
FROM LVIV, UKRAINE. LAST NIGHT, YOU SAID IT'S
NECESSARY TO BE A WITNESS TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN UKRAINE.
SO MUCH OF IT IS DISTURBING AND TRAUMATIC, BUT, OF COURSE,
THAT'S THE STORY THAT'S HAPPENING, THAT'S THE TRUTH.
HOW DO YOU MAKE THE EDITORIAL DECISIONS OF WHAT TO SHOW PEOPLE
OF THIS WAR? BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT NOT TO
ROMANTICIZE WAR, IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT NOT TO OFFEND THE
DIGNITY OF THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED.
HOW DO YOU MAKE THE DECISION OF WHAT TO GIVE TO US?
>> LOOK, I MEAN, THERE ARE THINGS ONE SEES IN WARS THAT YOU
DON'T PUT ON TELEVISION. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ANY KIND OF
DESCRIPTION OF DEAT THIS YOU CAN IMAGINE HAPPENS, AND THAT'S NOT
NECESSARILY SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT TO SEE OR THAT IT'S
APPROPRIATE TO HUT ON TELEVISIO, BUT I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT NOT
TO SANITIZE EVERYTHING SO THAT IT JUST SEEMS LIKE SOME, YOU
KNOW, JUST SOME FILM OR SOME MOVIE OR YOU'VE SEEN WORSE IN
MOVIES, AND IT JUST DOESN'T SUCK THE REALITY OUT OF IT.
IT'S A FINE LINE, YOU KNOW, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOKING
AT STUFF, AND I TEND TO BELIEVE IT IS IMPORTANT TO SEE WHAT IS
HAPPENING. IT'S HARD TO LOOK AT AND, AFTER
A WHILE, MAYBE IT ALL STARTS TO LOOK THE SAME.
THERE ARE PEOPLE, DECENT PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST LIVING THEIR LIVES
AND HAVE HAD THEIR LIVES COMPLETELY RIPPED APART, YOU
KNOW. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE FLEEING, THEY
ARE NOW REFUGEES, BUT THEY ARE NOT REFUGEES, THEY ARE PEOPLE
JUST LIKE YOU AND I, AND SOME ARE FROM AFRICA AND SOME INDIA
AND SOME FROM UKRAINE AND THEY ARE FLEEING AND THEIR LIVES ARE
COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND UROOTED AND THEIR FAMILIES
DIVIDED, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SEE ALL THAT AND TO
FEEL WHAT IT IS LIKE TO IMAGINE YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES, TO HAVE
IEMPATHY AND WALK IN THEIR SHOE. FOR THAT, I THINK YOU HAVE TO
SEE SOME OF WHAT IS GOING ON AND YOU HAVE TO HEAR IT AND YOU HAVE
TO SEE IT, AND IT'S HARD SOMETIMES TO LOOK AT IT, BUT TO
LOOK AWAY, TO ME, IT'S JUST NOT AN OPTION.
I JUST BELIEVE THAT I'VE SEEN A LOT OF PLACES WHERE PEOPLE JUST
DISAPPEAR, WHERE THEIR BODIES LITERALLY DISINTEGRATE INTO THE
SAND OR THE EARTH AND THERE'S NO PHOTOGRAPH OF THEM THAT THEIR
FAMILY HAS AND THERE'S NO MARKER OF THEM OF WHERE THEY DIED, AND
I THINK IT'S A TERRIBLE THING TO BE SLAUGHTERED IN A WAR, BUT TO
BE VIS RATED AND NOT HAVE ANYBODY EVEN NOTICE YOUR PASSING
IS PARTICULARLY HAUNTING TO ME, AND I BELIEVE IN BEARING WITNESS
TO THE DIGNITY OF PEOPLE HERE AND ALSO THE INDIGNITY THAT IS
BEING DONE TO PEOPLE. ( APPLAUSE )
>> Stephen: WHAT SHOULD THE WORLD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO IN
THE WEEKS AHEAD? IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF
NEGOTIATIONS? IS IT THESE EVACUATION
CORRIDORS? WHAT IS THE STORY YOU'VE GOT
YOUR EYE OUT FOR? >> THERE HAVE BEEN THREE
MEETINGS BETWEEN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN OFFICIALS IN BELARUS.
NOT MUCH HAS COME OUT OF IT. I THINK I'VE TALKED TO UKRAINIAN
OFFICIALS WHO SAY, LOOK, YOU KNOW, THEY WON'T SAY THEY TRUST
THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE TALKING TO.
VLADIMIR PUTIN IS THE ONE WHO ENDS UP MAKING THE DECISIONS.
THEY BELIEVE THAT THERE MAY BE SOME PLACES THAT THEY CAN COME
TO SOME SORT OF AGREEMENT ON, BUT THAT HASN'T HAD YET IN THREE
MEETINGS. AND THESE HUMANITARIAN
CORRIDORS, IT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
THE FEW TIMES IT'S SET UP IN VERY LIMITED WINDOWS AND PLACES,
HASN'T LASTED WRONG. UKRAINIANS BLAME THE RUSSIANS
FOR VIOLATING IT, AND THE RUSSIANS SAY IT'S THE UKRAINIAN
MILITARY WHO DID. THAT HAS NOT WORKED.
RUSSIA IS SAYING YOU CAN HAVE A HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR TO GO INTO
BELARUS OR RUSSIA, BUT THERE ARE VERY FEW UKRAINIANS WHO WANT TO
FLEE INTO RUSSIA OR BELARUS, WHEN IT'S RUSSIA WHO IS
ATTACKING UKRAINE AND ATTACKING IT ALSO FROM BELARUS.
SO THERE'S GOT TO BE SOME SORT OF INTERMEDIARY LIKE THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF THE RED CROSS WHO DOES THIS KIND OF
THING, AND THERE'S GOT TO BE THE WILL ON BOTH SIDES TO CREATE
HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS TO GET PEOPLE OUT AND SUPPLIES IN
BECAUSE, SOON, YOU KNOW, THE CITIES ARE GOING TO START
RUNNING OUT OF FOOD AND MEDICINE AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE
RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN. IT IS THE SURGICAL STRIKE THEY
WERE PROBABLY HOPING FOR DIDN'T HAPPEN AND, NOW, IT SEEMS LIKE
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE MAXIMUM DAMAGE TO BREAK THE WILL OF THE
UKRAINIAN PEOPLE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THAT WILL HAPPEN, I DON'T
KNOW. BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT -- YEAH, I
MEAN, NOBODY CAN SAY WHAT WILL HAPPEN, BUT I CERTAINLY THINK
THAT THE EXAMPLE THAT UKRAINIANS HAVE SHOWN THUS FAR OF THE
WILLINGNESS TO STAND UP AND FIGHT AND RESIST, IT IS JUST
EXTRAORDINARY TO WITNESS, AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE AND KIND OF AN
HONOR TO BE HERE AND BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW -- YOU KNOW, WHEN
PEOPLE -- IT REALLY MOVES ME WHEN PEOPLE SAY GOODBYE TO YOU,
THEY -- THE OFFICIAL GREETING AMONG SOLDIERS AND NOW EVEN
AMONG CIVILIANS IS, YOU KNOW, GLORY TO UKRAINE.
AND THEN THE ANSWER TO THAT IS DPLOAR TO THE HEROES -- GLORY TO
THE HEROES. TO ME, THAT EMBODIES THE SPIRIT
THAT PEOPLE HAVE HERE THAT IS NOT JUST ABOUT THEIR OWN
INDIVIDUAL PAIN AND THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL HEARTBREAK, IT'S THAT
THEY'RE PART OF SOMETHING BIGGER.
I WAS AT A PLACE TODAY WHERE MOMS WHOSE KIDS AND HUSBANDS
WERE AT THE FRONT WERE PACKING SUPPLIES AND HAND WEAVING
CAMOUFLAGE NETTING FOR UKRAINIAN TANKS AND ARTILLERY PIECES.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE CRYING ON THE ONE HAND BECAUSE THEIR LOVED ONE
IS GONE AND THEY FEEL LIKE THIS IS HOW THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE.
AND IT'S JUST -- IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY THING TO WITNESS.
>> Stephen: ANDERSON, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE REPORTING YOU'RE DOING AND, OF COURSE, ALL
YOUR COLLEAGUES ON THE FRONT FOR SHOWING US THE BARBARISM OF THIS
INVASION AND THE DIGNITY OF THE UKRAINIANS COURAGEOUS RESPONSE.
ANDERSON COOPER REPORTING FROM UKRAINE, EVERYBODY.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH BROADWAY STAR SUTTON FOSTER.