energy agency is implementing a, quote, severe and unprecedented emergency power cut in kyiv to avoid a complete blackout. i want to bring in matt mcbradley and jamil jaffer. he served as chief council and senior adviser to the senate foreign relations committee. matt, let me start with you. take us through exactly what we heard from president putin over the last hour or so when it comes to his attentions moving forward in ukraine. reporter: it was another one of the greatest hits speeches from vladimir putin. it s nothing that we haven t heard before. a lot of this stuff is stuff that he s used before as a pretext to this kind of rambling sort of off-topic kind of speech, blaming the west not only for instigating the war in ukraine. he didn t mention ukraine all that much it was he was directly asked about it after the speech
moment but it goes to show with that dirty bomb talk, a lot of folks here saying that targeting electricity infrastructure and taxing civilians like this, talking about a dirty bomb, all of this goes to show how desperate russia is considering their recent retreats on the battlefield. jose? matt mcbradley, thank you so much. ambassador, let s talk about that. it seems like there are a number of indications that russia is not doing well in this in this invasion of ukraine. the talk of dirty bomb, how concerned are you of that? jose, there are a lot of indications as you just indicated of putin s desperation. this is one of them. great reporting there. the russians are losing on the battlefield. they lost in the north. they are likely to lose again in the south around kherson and that s a big problem for mr. putin. he s got to somehow change the
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could, in fact, be true. but there s some worry among people here that moscow could decide to take that crazy step and use a nuclear weapon. the first time ever in combat since world war ii. jose? and, matt, i m struck by the fact that there s something that s missing behind you, any lights. is the how is the situation with power? well, you know, there is some lights throughout the country, but it s very dark here, especially at night. this is a persistent problem that s been going on since october 10th when the russians bombarded electricity facilities throughout the country. and we ve been speaking with families, speaking with energy leads here and they were saying that they re struggling to keep up. some 30% nearly 30% of their electricity capacity is now down. 1.5 million people throughout the country with limited power. that s a major problem. it seems to have halted for the