inside eastern ukraine where the war is playing out. horrors striking a city center as a top russian investigative reporter has new details for us about the phone calls leading up to the insurrection against putin. that reporter is my guest. and my full explosive interview with the ukrainian foreign minister, why he thinks the threat to putin is far from over, and his fears of an attack on europe s largest nuclear power plant. plus, a wagner commander speaks out to cnn about yevgeny prigozhin s bold coup attempt and what s next for the man who humiliated vladimir putin. 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, a city on the road to the front lines of putin s war. behind me, you see blackness. but there is a city behind me of nearly 1 million people. it is just completely dark. after curfew completely dark. the street lights behind me are all shut off
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vladimir putin appearing at a kremlin ceremony today in front of his military troops in what was meant as a formal show of unity. this is kremlin damage control in full swing. using the trappings of the russian presidency to patch up putin s battered image and to portray a deal ending the armed wagner rebellion as a feat not of weakness but as of national unity. translator: you have defended the constitutional order, the life, security, and freedom of our citizens. saved our motherland from upheavals and actually stopped the civil war. reporter: the kremlin insists putin s biggest challenge in 23 years of power is actually bringing russia closer together.