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Donald Trump: “Five to seven thousand people a week are dying.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 13:32

… would be lobbed into Kiev or some other place and you'd have 60 people laying on a road dying. I said, that's cold. That's cold. But it's a violent war. Five to seven thousand people a week are dying. and you know, there's nobody from here. They're all Russian and Ukrainian people and some people from the cities, much smaller number. But still those missiles do damage and they kill a lot of people. (13:32–13:36)

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Asserts that 5,000 to 7,000 people are dying weekly in the Ukraine conflict.

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