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
reporter: well, i think that it is a very ominous sign in the sense that these laws are draconian, it gives the russian military in the areas where they hold sway, and that is not in all of the areas that have been annexed of course by the russians, it gives them the ability to seize property, to force people to the frontlines, to organize people s battalions, to detain people at will. so these are tough laws that give the russian military almost absolute power. on the ground, again i m not sure how much impact it will have because not all the territories are under their control. but it definitely sends a very powerful message to putin s critics not least at home who have been saying that vladimir putin is not doing enough or rather the russian military is not doing enough to win the conflicts in ukraine. this is vladimir putin showing that he won t back down and in fact he is doubling down and i think that is what the message is to be with this imposition of
Martial law means military can take on government functions and broad restrictions may limit civil liberties because of a crisis. Here's what the Russia martial.
been such a weird memory of what that day was like. about how significant it was, how scared people were, and about what was actually being plotted. who is being plotted with the overthrow of the constitutional system and the overthrow of american democracy. and at least in her denial being so cagey and amorphous, it seemed there was at least some awareness, lingering over her perhaps the divisive council, about exactly with the stakes are in this. yeah, chris, i can tell you with total confidence that i have never called for the imposition of martial law. you would think that is the kind of thing people would remember not ever having said. but we have a congresswoman on video saying acting like, oh i don t know, i don t think so. and that is telling of course to see her handle these questions in that particular mode. in terms of just the way that they played it out, congressman raskin made a comment earlier that i think is worth
how scared people were, and about what was actually being plotted. who is being plotted with the overthrow of the constitutional system and the overthrow of american democracy. and at least in her denial being so cagey and amorphous, it seemed there was at least some awareness, lingering over her perhaps the divisive council, about exactly with the stakes are in this. yeah, chris, i can tell you with total confidence that i have never called for the imposition of martial law. you would think that is the kind of thing people would remember not ever having said. but we have a congresswoman on video saying acting like, oh i don t know, i don t think so. and that is telling of course to see her handle these questions in that particular mode. in terms of just the way that they played it out, congressman raskin made a comment earlier that i think is worth amplifying. the fact that this crowd that