brutal treatment of soldiers on the front lines. we re live in ukraine. plus, cnn is learning more connections connected to president biden could be searched for classified documents and the president is frustrated tonight. and kevin mccarthy says he had questions about the life story of congressman george santos, so why was nothing done? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. tonight, russia touts a rare military victory. this is video posted by putin s private army. in it, you can see russian fighters holding a wagner flag and claiming that they re now in control of the main train station just outside the town of solidar which putin claims his forces have seized. this train station is not far from bakhmud. it s an area that is symbolically important for russia. capturing the two cities would be the most significant victory russia s had in months, but it s coming at a cost. a former w
25 people are still said to be missing at the death toll now stands at 40 including three children killed in this apartment complex. this brazen attack is one of the deadliest since the start of the war nearly a year ago and it s renewing kyiv s urgent calls for upgraded air defenses because right now, ukraine doesn t have the capabilities to shoot down this type of missile that brought this destruction. however, there is help on the way. tonight, a number of ukrainian troops are in oklahoma to begin training on the sophisticated patriot missile system. this system can take down tactical ballistic missiles, cruise type missiles and aircraft. more on that in a second. ben wedeman is outside for us in ukraine. you ve been on the ground in bakhmud. tell us what you ve seen. reporter: what we have seen is people in that city struggling to survive. we saw soldiers preparing for
That steel plant tragically would have fallen by now. these defenders are leaning forward. someone is getting resupply to them, which is hard to imagine how it is occurring. they must have enormous caches of ammunition, water. you need those things to fight. the longer it goes on, the weaker putin looks, and all of that is additive. in terms of the weapon systems, jonathan, i think the administration has done a very good job working directly with the ukrainians. i think the shopping list is pretty well full with two, i think, significant exceptions. one is more tactical aircraft. we had the moment of the mig-29s a week or so, few weeks ago now. i think there are still conversations about how we can put tactical jets in the hands of the ukrainians. ones they can fly. secondly, anti-ship cruise type