and, look, isabelle, as you put in your story, they were afraid they wouldn t be believed, but there you are telling these important stories. isabelle, we do appreciate you sharing them with us. and, berman, i think one of the things we re getting a sense of as isabelle reports is that as isabelle reports that the troops, the russian troops will go door to door, take the cell phones, the sim cards, there was no way for people to communicate with the outside. something we re hearing town to town. that breaking news you just saw, we now have established contact with frederik pleitgen who is on the ground in makariv here, one of these towns that was under russian occupation, now the ukrainians under control. you moved locations. give us a sense of what you re seeing now. reporter: hi there, john, yeah, sorry. it is difficult to establish communication in some of these places we re going. a lot of places communicationses were knocked out. we have to move to where we get some sort o