doesn t show any signs of abating. reporter: the battle laying bare the stark divisions on the russian side. with wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin openly blasting russia s official military leadership, saying they manage soldiers from beauty salons and country clubs. arguing that if there were more of his private troops they would be halfway across ukraine by now. the toll has been so severe on the russian side that according to ukrainian officials regular troops have been backfilling wagner, mechanized infantry and tank units supported by artillery and aircraft. if russia were to take bakhmut, it would change little but be a symbolic victory as ukraine struggles to keep them at bay. president zelenskyy today urging world leaders at the munich security conference to speed up their military aid, comparing the fight to goliath taking on david and his sling. we need to hurry up. we need the speed, speed of our
groups. at the moment we are completely cut off from the ammunition supply. ammunition, ammunition, ammunition. and they are following the lead of their boss. they re not speaking out of turn. yevgeny prigozhin is blaming the russian army for wagner s shortages and failure. translator: the advance is proceeding less fast than we would want. why is the advance not fast enough? i think we could have taken control of it by the new year if we hadn t been hindered by our monstrous military bureaucracy and obstacles created on a daily basis. alex marquardt is out front in kyiv tonight to begin our coverage. and alex, what is the latest on the ground there tonight? reporter: erin, we are seeing the beginning stages of this new russian offensive, and so far it is not going well. one senior state department official on thursday said that it is very pathetic. we are getting that update on the fighting in bakhmut from the white house, that city where for
plus fox news exposed. new details about just how worried the network was about telling the truth to their viewers. and defying the odds. a nurse from hawaii about to sail solo around the globe before her incurable disease makes it impossible. she s my guest. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, cracking down. cnn is exclusively learning that the united states is planning to crack down on russia and russian intelligence services for efforts to circumvent u.s. sanctions. we understand this will be coming next week and it s as putin s best hope for a win in ukraine is crumbling even more tonight. the wagner group suffering huge losses, now unlikely to meet their goal of capturing the symbolic city of bakhmut by the one-year anniversary of the invasion. in fact, they had thought they would have gotten it a long time ago. already yevgeny prigozhin s wagner group has suffered more than 30,000 casualties. roughly 9,000 deaths. according to the u.s. go
germany. a second phase has now started with 710 new ukrainian troops. much of the training focused on combined arms and maneuvers with those armored vehicles that the u.s. believes will be critical in taking back territory from russia. erin? alex, thank you very much. from kyiv tonight. and out front now, michael bacerciu the senior fellow at the atlantic council based in the southern ukrainian city of odesa. and retired air force colonel cedric leighton. thanks so much to both of you. colonel leighton, let me start with you with what alex was saying, that russia s struggling to get a new offensive going, a battered military, the tremendous losses obviously from wagner being a part of that. what would a massive russian offensive look like with the military that they have now? you know, presuming that they have tens of thousands or more troops that they re about to commit to it. yeah, erin, that s a really interesting question. in normal times you would say a russian offensive woul
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