Meanwhile, as they crack down on any dissent in Russia,
in Ukraine, families turn fighters, civilians, mothers
and fathers now practicing getting
ready for the Russians, how they're going to fight them.
And they showed our Matt Gutman the way.
Matt reporting again from Lviv tonight.
MATT GUTMAN (VOICEOVER): Tonight,
a tense moment at a checkpoint.
Guns are pointed.
It's a dry run by civilians preparing to fight
and take on the Russians.
The men with the guns are actually former teachers,
brewers, welders.
They're now the new inductees into this militia,
trying to fight back.
MATT GUTMAN (VOICEOVER): In an insurgency in its infancy,
citizens now gather in bomb shelters
to learn how to assemble and disassemble AK-47s
and stash Molotov cocktails around town.
And your knees together and bent.
MATT GUTMAN (VOICEOVER): Students
learn how to carry the wounded.
And a mother cinches tourniquets.
You're someone who was doing programming
for mobile phone games.
Yes.
And now you're doing this.
Is it surreal?
Yes.
Sometimes it's like I just want to take enough--
drink enough coffee and wake up from this.
But I don't.
MATT GUTMAN (VOICEOVER): And this nightmare is real.
As missiles fall, rescuers carry the wounded, cries ringing
out across Ukraine.
We were invited into the sprawling checkpoint,
concrete bunkers, coils of concertina wire,
ramparts of sandbags.
With your wives, your parents, and children,
you built all of this, the sandbags, the drums.
From the one day.
MATT GUTMAN (VOICEOVER): Oleg is one of the civilian commanders
here.
They want to show us something right now.
What is that?
A mine?
OLEG: Mine, yes.
These are mines.
OLEG: Yes.
Do they work still?
OLEG: Yeah.
So this is to, what, blow up Russian tanks?
OLEG: Yes.
And, David, those fighters, men and women, telling us
they can't fend off the Russians with just Molotov
cocktails and old Soviet mines.
They need weapons, and they need training, David.
Matt Gutman live in Lviv tonight.
Matt, thank you very much.