hurricane ian, and now questions are growing about why officials waited to order mandatory evacuations. and the person who helped recruit the migrants is a former u.s. army counterintelligence agent. so who is she? let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin s chaos. this video shows one of the ambushes destroying three russian tanks. and videos posted online by ukraine s defense ministry show one town after another being liberated. you see the flags flying over the key city of lyman. the losses are leaving putin s forces in a state of chaos in. a story you ll see first out front, russian recruits are revealing the reality of putin s war. some claiming they were given no training before being shipped. and his commander telling the new recruits that it doesn t matter if they have hernias or plates in their heads, they re if fit to fight. putin throwing them in the line of fire as his options narrow. he s growing more desperate, threatening
pause. ukrainian soldiers are going to have to stop to resupply, get more fuel, get more ammunition, rest a little bit because they have been going hard for tens of kilometers going after these forces. and it s not only occurring in places where nick was or where melissa is, it s happening all along the front. one of the things that melissa said that i think is very interesting, the front line for the ukrainians is constricting. the places they have to move to is lessening. the russians are still surrounding what we call exterior lines on the outer forces. they still have to try and move forces around. they can t do it because the ukrainians have also captured the railroad stations and destroyed the supply depots of the russian military. when we talk about putin is doing this because his options are narrowing, u.s. officials are now considering how to respond to a range of potential scenarios, and that includes any use of nuclear weapons. they re spending a lot of time on that.