Samantha Power

This is the sort of extraordinary resistance Russia is facing here.

100 miles northeast of Kyiv, a man tries to block a Russian tank.

Painter Natasha Tokchenko says she's put down her brush, now mastering the art of making a Molotov cocktail, hunkering down with her neighbors in the parking garage of their apartment building turned bomb shelter and makeshift factory.

Similar scenes across the country.

Even the former prime minister now going viral with his demonstration.

The government encouraging all Ukrainians to take up arms and fight.

This man leaves with two AK-47s, even though he's never fired a gun.

Do you know how to use that?

It's a great question.

And I will say that I was UN ambassador under Barack Obama in his second term, and we could find pockets of cooperation

But for me, what really made clear that Russia was heading in a different direction and it had great consequences for humanity was the Syria crisis.

And particularly, you might remember the bombing of Aleppo, which was like before it, the bombing of Grozny in Chechnya, internal to Russia.

So suddenly Russia, outside of its borders, was backing, yes, a regime, a government that was also a member state of the United Nations, pulverizing civilians.

first time I ever heard the phrase, Trevor, fake news, which has now become a staple, was the Russian ambassador at the United Nations talking about making a set of false claims about what was happening in Syria and about how all they were doing is neutralizing terrorists.

And it was the first time they were asking us not to believe what we saw with our own eyes.

And then, of course, we had the interference in the 2016 election, which was so systematic.

So when you ask

where are things going?

I mean, they have obviously turned now in the darkest direction imaginable, galvanizing the democratic world, but well beyond that.

I mean, galvanizing statements also from, for example, the African countries, the Latin American countries, and others in the world who are just saying enough, you know, you cannot pulverize