CNBC's Shep Smith reports the latest from Putin's war in Ukraine, as he calls up 300,000 reservists and thousands of Russian citizens flee the country. With former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

Russian forces have invaded Ukraine from land, air and sea with strikes causing widespread damage. Global leaders have condemned the move and imposed sanctions.

Ukraine Invasion

Russia has been hit by global sanctions following President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine.

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People flee Russia after Putin's reservist callup

A rare and I opening site across Russia, people fleeing that country a day after Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 Reserve troops to fight in. Ukraine is the first such call up in Russia since World War II. And look at this video, this shows a time lapse of flights leaving Russia yesterday on a flight tracker website. You can see your many flights were the turkey or media Kazakhstan where Russian can travel without a Visa, others are hitting the roads. Look at this, the video shows long lines of cars waiting across from Russia. And Georgia are there more all of this as tearful family were bidding farewell to meant leaving to go join the Russian military. This video shows in boarding buses after their family members. Iberia, a man held a child to the window of a bus to wave. Goodbye to a loved one. Meantime, our secretary of state Tony blinken today, address the United Nations security Council to try to rally support for his campaign again. Putin one man, chose this war. One man can end it. because if Russia stops fighting the war ends, If Ukraine stops fighting Ukraine ends his Russian counterpart, Sergei lavrov. Spoke to that was different. He was belligerent, lab Ralph & Kacoo's Ukraine of being a Nazi State said, there was no war crime in Kombucha. And allege, the ukrainians are committing atrocities against the invading Russians. You offered no evidence to support any of that. After the speech labral stormed out of the security Council, visibly, angry Ukrainian. Foreign minister said this afterwards Russian diplomats, flea almost exactly as Russian soldiers playing the battlefield, fleeing the draft, orders, and fleeing the floor of the UN Michael mcfaul. Now, former US ambassador to Russia, Michael take so much. It is there a way that we can capitalize on what appears to be? I don't know. A lot of unrest in Russia. Well mr. Putin's having a bad several weeks, right? He lost the beginning of the war in the Battle of Kiev. He's not lost this. Incredible set back around the second, largest city in kharkiv, so he's decided to take this very dramatic, step that he promised the Russian people. He wouldn't do, which is this mobilization. And as you just showed lots of people don't like it. Thousands of demonstrating first time we've seen that since that the beginning of the war and you can rest assured that if thousands are demonstrating tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Russians share that view that just don't want to get arrested and then people fleeing in any way they can causing I think mr. Putin. Some real troubles at home in terms of the legitimacy of this war have already suffered losses. It is there any reason to believe that these were nervous? He's calling up without any training, right? This minute or weapons that we know about her going to be any more confident. Not at all. I don't think they do military experts. I trust say exactly what you just said. I'll take the long time for them to get there and if you don't know why you're fighting, you don't fight very hard. I think that's a piece of this war that that we have to understand the ukrainians don't have the same weapons. They don't have the same numbers that the Russian army, but they have the will to fight cuz they're fighting for their Homeland. When you listen to, these people being drafted, I listen to lots of interviews on the street of the last 24 hours, many say, I'm not going to go fight with those that do say they're going to go fight. They don't even, I can't even explain why. And and that that will that, that uncertainty about what is this senseless War about? I think it's a huge problem for Vladimir Putin. We can see dots to connect. Them is a Fool's errand, I get it. But from what we see and what we've heard first-hand sources on the ground, Do you see any possibility that this Russian military is in real trouble? Or is that something we just sort of dreaming up in a propaganda way that people who take a side dude? They have proven that. They can't hold the territory that they conquered what we saw around Park, even particular, extraordinary a reversals on the battlefield. We haven't seen that very often in history that said they also aren't. As you're appointing out that Miss big military. They have a big place in Crimea that they've occupied since 2014 in parts of the Don boss where they de facto have controlled it since 2014. So I think this war is far from just a few months of being over tragically and what Putin has signaled right now is he's not trying to cut a deal. He's doubling down that suggests is going to go on for a while. It sounds like it will watch. Thanks very much.

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