a russian lieutenant who fought in ukraine has fled putin s army and he s out front to talk about it. the lack of equipment, training, boiling rabbits for food, the atrocities he says were committed by russian fighters. you won t want to miss this interview. breaking news, the pentagon right now is tracking a chinese spy balloon flying over the u.s. president biden asking for military options. what are the chinese doing? plus, fbi agents investigating congressman george santos for allegedly scamming a veteran out of thousands of dollars meant for his dying dog. that veteran is out front tonight. what did he tell investigators about santos? and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, a russian officer speaks out right here. constantine served on the front lines for three months and is now telling all. the former lieutenant is the most senior russian officer to speak publicly about what he saw and did in ukraine. you re going to see that interview in just a moment. he
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Positions last year. not only did he not know where the artillery men were shooting and his job was to protect them, that s what his unit was doing at the time, he says the russians firing those rockets had no idea what they were shooting at. of course we know, the targets are constantly civilian, homes, schools, apartment buildings. he witnessed three instances of russians torturing ukrainians. and he has this to say to the ukrainian people. translator: i ask the ukrainian people for forgiveness, that i came to their land with a gun in my hand. he is seeking asylum in the united states. you re going to hear more from him in a moment because his details about the russian forces come as president zelenskyy said that russia s new offensive is now under way. and fighting intensifies our fred pleitgen was just yards from two city strikes. he and his team were the middle of a civilian area. the attack sending everyone scrambling for shelter, afraid
Like we said it would, this particular fight is heavily reliant on what we call long range fires, artillery. you re seeing that the russians are shelling well in advance of their troop movements, but they re not able to, they have not been able to sufficiently weaken the ukrainian defenses with that shelling. the ukrainians are able to fight right back. are you getting the weapons that the ukrainians need to then quickly enough there? i know you prided yourself on the howitzers that have already arrived on the scene. there are more than half of the 90 howitzers that we promised ukraine are actually in ukraine. i would also note that more than 50 ukrainian artillery men, who were properly trained outside ukraine, over the last week, are now back in ukraine as well to help their colleagues learn on these howitzers. i can t tell you where each of these howitzer pieces are or whether they re actually engaged in the fight, but they re in ukraine and they ll be ready for them to use. w
A ban on sending lethal aid to conflict zones. that is a complete about face. sending those tanks into ukraine. i talked to one of the ukrainian representatives here. i asked him what he needs. he said multiple rocket launch systems. that is some of the long range in addition to long range artillery being trained on the howitzers. defense secretary austin said five battalions of artillery men, units using howitzers that they re training up. this is a very different mood, i would say, in the wake of the russian military being pushed back from the capital and also with so many nations, including the united states talking about reopening their embassies in the capital kyiv, a great sign of solidarity for the ukraine government. ainsley: absolutely. the president said is he returns diplomats to ukraine. the goal is to reopen the embassy in kyiv the next few weeks. you remember 62 days ago they closed down the embassy and