united states is outfront on who she thinks is behind the attacks inside russia. plus, governor ron desantis about to hold his first major event in iowa as a presidential candidate. he s going all in for evangel voters. can he peel them away from trump this time? and calls for a boycott against chick-fil-a. conservative revolt over a dei executive. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, land, air, and sea. ukraine bracing for an all-out assault from putin, including potentially devastating attacks by russian submarines. this is according to a military spokesperson and our fred pleitgen who is in kyiv where he says they are preparing for what could be a major retaliation by putin. and we re going to check in with fred in just a moment. because that fear is coming after at least eight drones targeted wealthy moscow neighborhoods overnight, an area where putin himself has an estate. this is the first time since the beginning of the invas
kremlin itself gets hit, proves that they have a lot of holes inside the russian s air defense. the capital itself, that should be very concerning to russian citizens, and i think prigozhin has a point. these aren t even missiles, these are drones. i want to ask you one more thing, general. china, there is a video that we have just gotten in. this is from the u.s. department of defense. performing a, quote, unnecessarily aggressive maneuver. that s what they describe it as. this is a video that we re watching. what do you see when you look at this? how dangerous is it? obviously, a very unprofessional and dangerous act by what appears to be the j-16 fighter pilot. as soon as i saw this tape, i was reminded the event back in 2001. we saw a chinese j-8 fighter aircraft collide with a navy p-3 aircraft over the south china sea, so in the same area. the result was the chinese
stretches for miles and miles and as scott said it could take more than 24 hours for people in cars to get through a checkpoint. let s go back to victor now. anderson, thank you. and we have heard that more than 500,000 people have had to leave their country. let s go now to the pentagon. john kirby is giving an update. acting under personal defense. that following his 20 years of service as minority council, general counsel and staff director of the senate armed services committee and serving as a senior fellow at the institute for defense analysis. who i think many of you know previously served as undersecretary of the air force and prieor to that, the comptroller and the vice director of j-8. she serves as a director on the board of mercury systems. the whole leadership team looks