energy infrastructure that left many odesans in the dark for three days. what was that like? no electricity, nothing to cook because we have electric cooker. our house has no generator for this. reporter: these parents of three young children look for creative ways to keep the kids occupied. we try make some activities for them. for example, music. reporter: just hours after friday s drone strikes plunged much of the region into darkness, the odesa philharmonic orchestra give a candlelight performance. even a war won t stop the music. will rippley, cnn, odesa, ukraine. meantime ukraine is
so absolutely i think it will continue. the u.s. s bipartisan support has allowed ukrainians to achieve success. multiple launch rocket systems are thousands and thousands of artillery rounds. they are making every round count. it is the life blood of their ability to do this. they still need were supplies. this is showing the world this war won t last for years. this is months. if they continue to get supplies like they have from the united states, uk, germany, other people, they can end this quickly and reestablish their sovereign borders. this is an illegal war by all measures. and the ukrainians are fracturing putin s regime as a whole. but they re winning, and nobody can deny them that today. extraordinary.
at the insis tans of the soviet union. russia is simply trampling international legal norms but of course norms of humanity and decency. and so they have gone completely rogue. they have gone rogue, yet at the same time we heard from the secretary general speaking to our anderson cooper. it was yesterday, that this war won t end with meetings. that s what he said. it will end when russia says so. if putin can t be trusted where does this leave the role of the un in ukraine? clearly as long as both sides, russia and ukraine think they can prevail in the battlefield, there is no role for any mediation for any peacemaking or anything. that s why the secretary general speaks also about the fall out in africa and elsewhere. higher food prices etc.
harder to get peace in the end. but absolutely, people are going to criticize him for phrasing things that way. nic robertson and oren liebermann, thank you both. let s bring in a former u.s. ambassador to nato. was also a special representative for ukraine negotiations. in 20 17, he s a seniored a vie or the to the atlantic counsel. ambassador, thank you for being here. you said this war won t end with negotiations. based on what we heard from nic robertson, are you even more sure of that now? yeah. i do not see any prospect for negotiations at this time. putin is clearly driving toward some kind of military victory that he can claim. ideally on may 9th, the victory day they celebrate in moscow. they re not really being serious about negotiating anything. and as nic robertson pointed out, russia is the aggressor here. russia is the country invading somebody else s country.
country. it doesn t feel right to me. but with this leadership, what else can i do? this was quite shocking to find this level of frustration, of disappointment, of not knowing what to do about the actions their government is taking. i m not quite sure how this bodes for the coming days and nights, but it s very clear that putin is cracking down heavily. that s his tactic, that s the way he does it, because he wants to snuff out these demonstrations. the war won t be done in a day in ukraine and these protesters are likely to try to come back out again so he s going in heavy it seems early on to send an unequivocal message, keep off the streets. nic robertson, thank you so much, appreciate it. let s discuss all of this with susan glasser, center for strategic and national studies vice president seth jones and cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. putin has for months claimed he had no intentions of going to war with ukraine. he reiterated this last week during a meeting with the ge