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
there other top russians who may have helped yevgeny prigozhin? plus, live in moscow where russians are speaking out to cnn. and a u.s. marine vet here tells me why he s risking everything to fight for ukraine, and then preparing for battle. i m going to take you to a ukrainian training ground where troops are about to return to the fight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. we are live tonight in eastern ukraine in the city of dnipro. we are just west of the front lines deep in the country where the brutal war is being raged. now, this is a city of nearly a million people, and, as you can see in the darkness and rain right now, all city lights at night are turned off because of security concerns. and, again, tonight, we heard the sound of air raid sirens. and, with that came this warning from the air force, quote, threat of using ballistic missiles, weapons, do not ignore the alarm signals, go to shelter.
and the consequences for the rest of the world. kremlin spokesperson says, the leader of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, will not face charges for actions russian president vladimir putin described as treason just hours ago. spokesperson also saying, prigozhin will head to neighboring belarus, with wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. this comes after prigozhin ordered his forces to turn back, return to their bases, abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading toward moscow. we are looking at new video into us taken from the city of rostov near the ukrainian border. as all these new developments come in and we get these new images, the question remains, how do we get here this fast? the wagner group was what russia calls a, quote, private military company. over the u.s. calls the group a proxy force that had been fighting on russia s behalf in ukraine. on friday, prigozhin accused russia s defense minister, ordering a rocket strike on wagner s camps
Could bend the houthis arm to stop. general zwack and jim, thanks to both of you. millions of americans are in the path of another dangerous winter storm sweeping across the country. it s causing blizzard conditions, heavy rain, bitter cold, you re looking at some pictures from milwaukee right now. near whiteout congresses have already been seen, have already been seen and have already set in in parts of nebraska. in iowa monday s caucuses could be the coldest ever. the weather already upending campaign events there today. cnn s meteorologist alyssa rafa is tracking all of this. what are you watching? kate, we have for the second time this week nearly every single state has some sort of alert, whether it s the winter alerts, severe weather, wind, flooding. we are watching all of it as we go through the next couple of days. here s a look at the system. you can see the snow pumping
That s happened on the ground that i think is irrefutable. the first is how did the wagner guys get as far as they did? i think everybody could have sat back and said wow, this prigozhin thing doesn t look like it s going to go well for the kremlin. if we can see that, and all we have access to is general reporting, you can t tell mae navy the russian intelligence searches, specifically the fsb either didn t see this or somehow didn t send it up the line? how do you explain that? so that s either a lack of focus or a lack of or an increased focus on something else to the detriment of putin s regime, that s job number one for all autocrats is to stay in power. so i think we re looking at a weakened putin. the question remains is how weakened? what will his response be? because he is going to try to show that he is, of course, not weakened. we ll see how that turns out. and there are a lot of concerns about what that could look like, understandably. general zwack, you heard that inte