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Uniforms and positioning themselves with the territorial defense forces to fight against russian forces as they enter the city. they're picking up guns, putting down their brief cases, whatever the metaphor i'm trying to get at, picking up weapons and prepared to fight for this city. i'm positive it's happening not just here but across ukraine. that has been a shock to the russians calling for the military to lay down their arms and surrender. at that point it has not happened >> yeah. look, we'll see what are they able to do, these civilians. what can they withstand. what length will russian ...

Ukraine, the russians really better watch out. i mean, she was amazing. >> reporter: yeah, she actually was in afghanistan with the soviet occupation in the '80s and carried a rifle and grenades and was involved in fire fights there, she told me. and she's not the only nina. my team has talked to another grandmother on the previous day who said the same exact line. and i think it gets to -- that line being, if i had putin in front of me, i would strangle him with my own hands, which is shocking to hear, coming from a babushka, a grandmother here. this line that people repeat again and again, t...

Locations. using their cruise missiles to hit specific points that are supporting the ukrainian military defense. this was the third fuel depot to go up in flames in recent days. the other key dynamic that's been established this week, ukrainian counteroffensive operations. most recently we are seeing those around the eastern city of kharkiv, we have video which shows ukrainian forces pushing russian forces back, involved in some pretty intense fire fights at one point in a village around 12 miles east of that city. we're also hearing reports and seeing evidence of counteroffensive a little fu...

How old is she? >> 5. >> and she asked if the tank would shoot at us. >> yes, because she saw tank every day. >> she saw russian tanks? >> a lot of russian tanks. >> she says russian soldiers had occupied her village and set up artillery positions and that ukrainian forces started to target them. just a few days ago, she says there was an explosion about 100 meters from her house. right after it hit, she knew it was time to go. she says i thought to myself, i'm 34, i have three children. it can't end like this. so we walked right into the forest for two hours. a ukrainian soldier then stopped ...

0 official, i asked him if president putin is directing this himself. and he said yes, that is how it is going. that is not surprising. we know that president putin makes all of the decisions. in the end, he will have had advice from that small clique around him, that ultimately he is the decision-maker. and another element of his televised address, which to reiterate, if russians will be stunned by. waking up and seeing now, another man from that televised address, which is chilling frankly. is that president putin requires russian's nuclear capability. and clearly, openly threatens western l...