causing serious destruction. ukrainian government is now imposing energy restrictions, rolling blackouts across the country, after repeated strikes on critical energy infrastructure. in the meantime president biden responding to putin s declaration of martial law in these ukrainian territories saying it reveals his dwindling options in the war. i think vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. cnn got rare access to ukraine s military on the battlefield frontlines. matthew chance is live in moscow first, but i want to go to fred 34r50i9 plight ken who is in kramatorsk. tell us what you saw. reporter: and we ve been hearing so much about the long distance strikes that the russians have been carrying out on critical infrastructure and of course that school that they hit overnight there in zaporizhzhia. but there are still a lot of
on the streets inside russia, you just don t see as many men in public. matthew chance reported the same thing. what is your advice to fighting age men in russia, what do you think they should do? they should not fight, not agree to fight in ukraine. and many of them have obviously left the country. some of the others are bravely resisting efforts to be mobilized and be called up inside their own country. this is a brutal war as you just saw from fred s report. but throughout the whole rest of the east and south of the country. and they are putting these russian soldiers into the fight, some of these mobilized reservists have just been called up and they are in the fight with maybe a week s worth of train and some small arms and ammunition and that is it. and though smaller, much better
causing serious destruction. ukrainian government is now imposing energy restrictions, rolling blackouts across the country, after repeated strikes on critical energy infrastructure. in the meantime president biden responding to putin s declaration of martial law in these ukrainian territories saying it reveals his dwindling options in the war. i think vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position. and what it reflects to me is it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine. cnn got rare access to ukraine s military on the battlefield frontlines. matthew chance is live in moscow first, but i want to go to fred