just days before the election, who is kathy bartlett and could she win? and good evening, welcome to a special edition of outfront, live from kyiv tonight i m erin burnett and russia with a new warning and a massive show in force. this comes as the u.s. is flexing its military muscles 700 miles south of ukraine. thousands of troops from america s allies join americans for military exercises in north macedonia, at some point, hundreds of paratroopers to the sky to demonstrate how quickly the alliance could respond to an attack. while it s important to note these exercises were planned for putin s invasion, it s always the option to hold them up, the u.s. with that and other exercises since the conflict began, no doubt the message was aimed at putin and it comes as former president dmitri medvalev gave a warning, quote, that russia will strengthen the number of air defenses and ground and air forces as well as naval forces if sweden and finland join nato. they probably will,
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2014, 2015, he transitioned. putin passed on the role of the key intelligence gathering in ukraine to the fsb and obviously, moving it back to the military intelligence. all right, christo, thank you very much, i appreciate your time and, of course, everyone appreciates all of your work. next, a ukrainian soldier shows me how they re using drones to have crucial gains on the battle field here. it is a story you ll see only outfront. to think you. plus a major move by january 6th select committee, members of congress including house leader kevin mccarthy.
However. yeah, you are quite right. as you were talking, nic, michael and i were both nodding in agreement to what we heard. i jotted down as well him thanking the donbas volunteers and the russian troops for fighting for the motherland. the question now is, nic, what can we expect? how does that translate, perhaps his words translate to the battle field here, to the front line in the east of the country? reporter: i think it does give him the ability to have or not have the success that he wanted to have. that his ultimate achievement may be to secure a slightly larger territory within the donbas, and maybe not even within the whole sort of geographically politically donetsk or donbas. that he may be able to frame this ultimately as that s what