forces. more details on how many men putin has sent to the front lines. plus, the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election heating up as the special counsel focuses in on trump s legal team. and a terrifying video of a visible crack in the support beam of a popular roller coaster. the man who shot this video, the video that eventually forced the park to shut the ride down is my guess. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erica hill in for erin burnett. putin is now said to have moved more than 180,000 men to the front line, including 50,000 near bakhmut and the buildup comes as ukraine claims it is slowly making progress in the east, taking back more than 14,000 miles in the past week. we re getting video of a massive fire ball seen rising over the city of sumi. russia hit a number of residential buildings and a security service building. these attacks underscore why zelenskyy is pressing for ukraine to be able to join nato. erin asked zelenskyy
i m alex marquardt. president zelenskyy is speaking exclusively to erin burnett in ukraine. take a listen. mr. president, you said it s a completely different set of traits and different periods. now he s faced a rebellion and attempted coup from evgeni prigozhin. have you seen any changes in how you think he s acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? translator: yes, we see the reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin s reaction. it s week. firstly, we see he doesn t control everything. wagner is going deep into russia shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn t control the situation in the regions, he doesn t control the security situation. all of us understand his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that s why it s so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia. who could have stopped him? putin doesn t understand the regional policy and doesn t control all those people in the regions. so all that vertical of power he used to
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at last check, they ve tried a few different ways to troubleshoot it, to fix the problem. no word yet on whether they ve been able to stop it at this point. this follows monday s scrubbed launch which was largely due to an engine cooling problem. it was a tricky sensor that was off. but engineers remain optimistic that today there will be a launch. for now, the weather has been cooperating so that helps. nasa meteorologists predict about 60% favorable conditions, which increases to 80% as the day goes on. of course this historic mission marks the next chapter of lunar exploration and will land the first woman and first person of color on the moon in a matter of years. let s go now to cnn s space and defense correspondent kristin fisher live this morning from the kennedy space center. i don t think kristin has us. can you hear us? reporter: hey, guys, i m having a hard time with my earpiece so i can t quite hear what you said. let me bring you up to speed from the kenned