US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Russia of trying to make up for defeats on the battlefield in Ukraine by targeting the country's infrastructure, leaving civilians without vital services. "President (Vladimir) Putin seems to have decided that if he can't seize Ukraine by force, he will try to freeze it into submission," Blinken says after a meeting of the G7 group of wealthy nations' foreign ministers in Germany. SOUNDBITE

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