detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, w
calls, loved ones on the front lines. they sar their training just for the cameras. they re sitting ducks treated just like pigs. tonight after an arrest republican kari lake is not going to let it go. and world affairs expert ian gram an why he thinks the chinese president was escorted from that meeting. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight hell on the front lines. new video just into out front from an independent russian news organization. it s a jaw dropping reporting of a russian woman speaking to her husband on the front lines in ukraine. listen for yourself. translator: my love, how are you? translator: i wasn t listening to all the bull [ bleep ] people were talking about, but now we don t know where we re going. we don t have anything to eat and we don t know what our objectives are. translator: it s [ bleep ] hell here. translator: they re [ bleep ] us with rockets. we re in some village under constant shelling not far from where people
minister. it could be extremely revealing, right, and as you say perhaps says something about putin. so, rob, when you look at the strategy and the battlefield successes of his troops or lack thereof. when you compare his troops to we just heard all these families talking about their children being treated like pigs and they re not even getting their training, they don t have any money they re not getting paid, not getting money to eat, compare his troops to those, what do you see in that comparison? i think on both sides there s significant issues. there s significant man power problems and we know they ve been recruiting prisoners, showing videos and based on what they re doing in fighting and being put in extremely risky situations. of course on the russian military side you re seeing a large number of mobilized units being deployed, many deployed
the wake of this partial mobilitization. how is internal decent, how might that affect the mobilization? there s obviously been this big political decision made that s in part trying to deal with some of the man power problems that russia has been facing which are significant and in theory should make some of these decisions easier for the russian military. that s clearly the intent here, but our sources are telling us that even though the u.s. has seen some small number of russian troops move back towards the east, troops that had initially fled in the first push from ukraine, u.s. officials don t anticipate that russia is even capable right now of mounting any kind of serious military operation. and it s not clear that the mobilization itself is going to have any long term kind of operational impact on the battlefield, what that s going to look like, and certainly not