inside eastern ukraine where the war is playing out. horrors striking a city center as a top russian investigative reporter has new details for us about the phone calls leading up to the insurrection against putin. that reporter is my guest. and my full explosive interview with the ukrainian foreign minister, why he thinks the threat to putin is far from over, and his fears of an attack on europe s largest nuclear power plant. plus, a wagner commander speaks out to cnn about yevgeny prigozhin s bold coup attempt and what s next for the man who humiliated vladimir putin. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. we are live tonight in eastern ukraine in the city of dnipro, a city on the road to the front lines of putin s war. behind me, you see blackness. but there is a city behind me of nearly 1 million people. it is just completely dark. after curfew completely dark. the street lights behind me are all shut off
between the gates of the circus in the city of rostov. and i think that this is the best picture to explain, in a nutshell, the current situation of wagner. stuck in the middle of it is still a war machine, but it is stuck in a circus of russian politics. i think wagner will not continue its existence in the current form. but i don t really care what is going to happen to them because, you know, we think about what is happening in ukraine. but if it changes its existence in its current form, that could have huge implications for you. we ve been talking about in bakhmut for months, wagner