tonight, their stories from their loved ones who survived. and a cnn exclusive sees shocking text messages from two republicans who went from defending the big lie to warning trump's white house that it could, quote, back fire badly. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone, i'm in tonight for erin burnett i'm poppy harlow and tonight russia ramping up the brutal assault in the east, three regions now under constant bombing according to officials including kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine, you can see the hole in the roof of one apartment building there, and the attacks which are said to be getting more intense, now targeting crucial services, damaging one city's water supply system and two food warehouses. in kharkiv, at least 10 people so far have been killed in this attack and that includes a seven month old child. putin also retaliateling by launching offensive after a key russian warship was destroyed and just outside the capitol of kyiv, this is all that's left of a factory after being hit by russian missiles. the entire facade as you can see is gone, inside, two women sign cleaning what is left of the building that's reported to have produced missiles. and tonight, new fears from ukraine's president zelenskyy that putin may resort to nuclear weapons, listen to what he just told our jake tapper. i . >> i think all over the world, other countries have to be worried. because you know that it can be not real information, but it can be truth. because when they begin to speak about one or another battles or involved enemies or nuclear weapons or some chemical, you know, issues, chemical weapons, they should -- they could -- >> we have reporters across ukraine tonight, but let me begin with ben wedeman out front live in krematorsk, donetsk region of eastern ukraine, officials saying eight separate attacks in the last hours, exactly where your team are. what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: well what we're hearing just now is just north of here, a steady rumble of what seems to be artillery in that area, and this city around midday shook when there was a strike on an industrial site just next to the city as well and you were referring in your introduction to a town where we were, severodonetsk where the water mains were hit as well as two food warehouses. yesterday, we were at a food warehouse. we called, it was not the one, one of the two that was struck but that really, that town is the frontline, just to the north of it, really just a suburb to the north of it. we understand that there are, russian troops, artillery and armor are amassing in preparation for this offensive, we've seen on social media that russian forces are seriously reinforcing. now what's interesting, some of the russian forces that were in the area around kyiv and north central ukraine are being brought to the eastern part of the country. they may not be in the best fighting condition after the mauling they got from ukraine in forces, but in the totality, it certainly does seem that the russians are preparing for this offensive quite rapidly and we heard from one ukrainian official today that this offensive is going to take place or rather start in days, rather than weeks. >> ben wedeman, we appreciate the reporting very much on the ground in krematorsk, also new tonight, russia protesting the weapon shipments that the united states is sending to ukraine. and in this diplomatic memo, warning of a quote, unprecedented consequences if those weapons keep flowing into the country. let's go straight to kylie atwood, joins us out front tonight at the state department. so it is a stark warning to use these words unprecedented and unpredictable consequences then don't say what they are. how is the u.s. responding? >> reporter: yeah, puppy, it's a threatening diplomatic note. no way else to cut it but what the biden administration officials are saying is these words aren't going to have an impact on their policy, of continued support for ukraine, continued military support for ukraine, state department spokesperson said russia has said things in public, said things in private, but nothing is going to dissuade the briden administration of the strategy they're employing here of the continued military support for ukraine and the timeline here underscores or gives credence to those comments. our reporting is this diplomatic note received by the biden administration on tuesday and president biden went forth with his plans to announce additional military support from the u.s. to ukraine on wednesday, indicating that even though they received this message from the russians, they weren't going to be dissuaded, they were going to move forward and when you talk to biden administration officials about what this message from the russians indicates about their standing right now, they believe that it indicates that russia is hu hurting, that this military support to ukraine is being effective and some biden administration officials believe russia wouldn't have sent such a diplomatic note if they felt they were in a strong standing on the battle field. >> that makes sense, thank you kylie for the reporting tonight, at the state department, let's talk a lot more about this, i'll bring in retired army brigadier general mark kemmett and ronald marks former cia official who over saw russian spying, let me go over this with you, when you have in the diplomatic memo if you will, on if the u.s. keeps giving weapons to ukraine, which it will, what does that even mean, unpredictable consequences? >> well first of all, i think we got to put this diplomatic note, in context, a demarch is something that happens almost on a daily basis inside the state department. if there were really unpredictable consequences and the russians truly meant it, they wouldn't be caught doing this for a diplomatic note, they'd actually be doing this directly to the department of defense or to jake sullivan so i think this was more about using the typical state department protocol and nothing more than that. >> so ronald, i mean one of the unpredictable consequences could be, let's hope not, could be putin using a, we're hearing a lot in the last 48 hours about a tactical nuclear weapon potentially, something we heard the cia director warn about yesterday and then we just heard ukrainian president zelenskyy tell my colleague jake tapper today that the world should be worried that putin might do that. how real do you believe that possibility is tonight? >> well, let's face it. i mean putin wants this, wants a win obtn this for the marrow of his bones, how far he's willing to go on this is something else, everyone's frightened of military weapons, not used on the battle field since august of 1945, he knows what that means so the threat of it enough to make people stand up, so are they going to use something, the father of all bombs, which is a 44 tons or something of explosive, thermobaric bomb, would they use that on the battle field? i'm sure they would, they're looking to inflict casualties. but in terms of nuclear weapons, you know, i would say it's a possibility but not a probability. >> general kimmitt, u.s. secretary of state antony blinken told european allies the u.s. believes at this point the war could last through the end of 2022 and we know the kremlin is promising that its military goals will be achieved. seems pretty much at any cost. what would you expect russia's tactics to become, more brutal as this becomes more pro tracted? >> first of all, i think we got to look at the new commander in charge, general duvorinikov is a pretty tough guy, pretty tough in syria, human rights violations, flattening cities such as aleppo did the same things in the operations against crimea quickly and did crimea as well so i would expect him to feel unconstrained on the level of brutality he would be willing to use. they would not only fight at the front lines, these these offens everyone is talking about but i would expect to see continued shelling of cities, continued human rights violations, continued firing on civilian targets. so i don't think we can understate the level of brutality we would see over the next month to see come on the part of the russians. >> and just think what we've seen in bucha those mass graves in mariupol, et cetera.. ronald, a source tells cnn that in a recent conversation with president biden, president zelenskyy asked the u.s. to designate russia a state sponsor of terrorism, not ruled that out in the past, what difference would that make? do you think that's something the administration should do? >> well it's certainly a symbolic effort. i mean you do have, it is the bad guys list i mean it's korea, north korea, rather, cuba, syria, et cetera. you know, the function of sanctions and all that, i tend to be a little more sceptical about their longer term. it does make a statement, and also by the way, makes a statement to the chief seven because the chief seven also have the equivalent of that article as well but i'm not so sure frankly when all is said and done. it's symbolic, it's important, i think it's an indicative level of sort of barking of the rugs at this point, perhaps once more along the line but i understand why they want to have it but when it's all said and done i doubt the efficacy of it. >> general kimmit in an interview, fascinating interview any president zelenskyy today published in the atlantic he voiced frustration over repeated questions on which weapons ukraine needs the most, questions from u.s., the west, and i was struck by his quote in the interview. he said when some leaders ask me what weapons we need, i need a moment to calm myself because i already told them the week before. it's groundhog day. i feel like bill murray. obviously knowing the audience, right, he's speaking to, clearly. what do you make of that? i mean he feels like i'm saying it over and over again, do do you not hear me? who do i need to tell. >> right, that's got to be balanced against the policy that the united states has which is we'll do this operation by, with and through nato and nato is an organization of 30 country and see when you have a coalition like that and you want to maintain consensus, often time you have to go to the lowest common denominator so if two or three countries object to no-fly zone or two or three countries are worried a too aggressive nature would put their countries in nato at risk, tat this point we seem to be abiding by that least common denominator. there's question whether that shopping list of president zelenskyy may be too excessive but the i think this really comes down to more and more to simply keep the coalition of 30 countries together, president biden and some of the hawks, some of the more hawkish countries are trying to balance what they're trying to do with those other countries, particularly those that are on the border with russia right now. >> general kimmit, ronald marks, thank you both very much for your expertise tonight. 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how are they getting the remains to their loved ones with so many bodies? >> reporter: yeah, it is a huge challenge, poppy. quite often, neighbors and communities will tell families what happened to the people that they've lost but the bodies themselves have been dispersed to centers across the region. authorities set up online data base, social media data base that people can search with interrogati information and images, images that are graphic that cannot hide the way many of these people suffered in the moments before they died, it is truly harrowing to scroll through this but this is what so many families must do in order to track down the bodies of those they've lost, poppy. >> phil black, live for us in kyiv tonight, thank you for that reporting, phil. and "outfront" next, the russian warship at the bottom of the ocean tonight, a huge embarrassment for putin. how is his state-run media, though, spinning it. we have a special report ahead. also, she was working at a maternity hospital on the day it was attacked in mariupol. she barely escaped, and tonight she is telling our story to "outfront." where do you find the perfect project manager? 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>> reporter: when confronted back then, by cnn's larry king, putin's stark solitary comment. it sank. lithuania's defense minister claims 485 crew were on board the moscova, noting turkish rescue boats picked up only 44 of them. state tv claims all the crew survived. russia's most disastrous naval adventure was 117 years ago against japan, they lost the whole fleet. eventually, the czar and his family paid the ultimate price in russia's revolution, too soon to say if the moscova's sinking can punch a hole below putin's propaganda water line. putin's state tv spin machine now admitted the moscova sunk and reacted angrily calling on putin to go all out war, drop a big bomb on kyiv, they're saying, to stop western leaders going there. poppy? >> nic robertson, thank you for that reporting, "outfront" now, political scientist, sociologist tracking public opinion throughout this war, i should know craig, you were hospitalized after an antiprotest in moscow the day of the invasion. we're glad you are doing better at least on the mend a bit and thank you for joining us tonight. >> hello, thank you for having me. >> this sunken warship was a huge loss, clearly, for the russian military. you have said, though, importantly, even the horror of the mass graves in bucha did not change russian public opinion. did you think this significant development, what happened to this warship will change russian public opinion on this war at all? >> well from the reaction we see on the militarized i would say segments of russian audience, it seems like this ship catastrophe was a blow for them, but no, i don't think it is going to change the general picture, just didn't happen with the bucha massacre, precisely because -- well, it is actually not true that russians don't understand what is going on there in ukraine, that they have a completely false picture. deep inside vast majority of russians of course understand everything. the problem is that there is deep belief that any way putin will, is going to win it, he's going to have the upper hand, and in this sense, i mean, admitedly, even to yourself, there is massacre going on, attack going on, just too difficult to bear. >> i mean ukraine says 20,000 russian soldiers have been killed in the war. given how the russian media is framing all of this, you say russians are prepared for even higher casualties? >> well, the russian propaganda has been framing that increasingly, a continuation of the war from the '40s, and may i remind you that it cost 27 million casualties to russians. so if now this framing prevails, then russians might be eventually ready for a new war and that would be a different order of magnitude of the casualties. >> this week, cnn reported about this teacher in russia who says she was secretly recorded by her students making antiwar comments in the classroom. she's now under investigation and i ask you this as a professor you say you're seeing instances of this, school administrators are actually being replaced, you say by fsb officers at universities. can you speak to what is happening on the education front at that level? 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>> translator: when i came back, i found huge crater and the cars that were burnt, and the three buildings of the hospitals that were completely ruined. they were, childrens, outpatient department, and womens consultation. >> and you know, at that moment, you realized and must have been so terrified for your patients, for all the women that were there and also, on some level you realize that you, yourself, had possibly just barely escaped death. how did you even process those emotions. >> translator: a feeling of disaster that everything, everything was ruined. i was just feeling desperate. everything that was dear to your life, all your life, was ruined with just this one blow and it was not clear at all why and what for. this aviation bomb fell on it. i couldn't understand what was the fault of our patients, of the children, of the doctors who were helping the patients, why our hospital was chosen to be the object of the strike. >> dr. mikalenko there were photos that emerged of pregnant women injured in the bombing. of course, we know one of them subsequently died and the story of her death is just so hard to hear. and then the russian embassy in london, they claimed they first tweeted, eventually, those tweets were deleted by twitter but they claimed that the photos that we saw of those women were staged and that the women were actors. what do you say to the russians? this was the formal russian government. >> translator: i can't even imagine the cynicism of a person who can say black to something that is white. it is out of my human understanding. i have been doing this job for 20 years, saving lives of adults and children and i can't understand how someone can be called a human being if he is being so cynical. >> one of the woman, doctor, who was accused of being an actress, we understand is now in russian-controlled territory and this is according to reporting from the associated press. in a video that is heavily edited, the russians to create their narrative, she now says the maternity ward was not hit by an air strike. here she is. >> translator: then we started discussing whether there was an air strike. we were told there was no air strike. our opinion got confirmed that we haven't heard anything and they haven't heard anything. >> we don't know what she actually said in the full video. we don't know under what conditions this was filmed. who was around her. who controlled this. we know she's in russian territory now. at first they said she's an actress. now they're saying, oh, we'll use her to say it didn't happen. what do you make of this in. >> translator: at the time i was in charge of the whole hospital. and i could see this plane. and i could see this explosion. this is why i couldn't go further and i had to return. from that place. because there was an explosive. and this lady in the video, she was in the basement same as all other pregnant women. this is how we managed to avoid more victims of this explosion. because when this shelling started, we moved everyone, most of the people into the basement. so everyone was in shock and they being in the basement, they couldn't assess the situation properly. >> doctor, i am grateful for your time and for sharing all of this with me. thank you. >> translator: thank you. >> the doctor also told erin that she went to work every day during the war but said she had to leave ukraine due to a leg injury that requires hip replacement surgery, an operation she cannot get right now back at home. 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