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new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. kl ....
Really need these weapons, and they need them now. yeah, amazing how many of those ancient by any measure in modern warfare weapons, they want those cluster precision munitions. thank you so much, ben wedeman. now retired air force colonel cedric leighton and peter row who wrote an intensive article about progozhin. colonel, let me start with you. when you hear ben talking about bakhmut, where he s spent so much time, and saying russia is steadily gaining ground, you hear progozhin today claiming that he exclusively took a suburb, a village south of the city of bakhmut, how significant is the russian performance here? we understood soledar was very clear, was of marginal to no strategic importance. bakhmut is different. yeah, it sure is, erin. the key thing here is that ....
Rockets and missiles, weapons that according to the united states then went straight to prog progozhin s and wagner fighters in ukraine. the concern tonight is that north korea might deliver even more lethal military equipment to progozhin specifically. ben wedeman is outfront live in kramatorsk. you re on the ground in bakhmut today where some of the fiercest fighting is taking place. you hear progozhin claiming victory in a suburb of bakhmut. what did you see and hear? reporter: well, erin, we ve been going to bakhmut fairly regularly for the past 2 1/2 weeks or so, and what we re seeing is that the fighting is just getting more and more intense and that the russian noose around bakhmut is tightening. in the trenches outside bakhmut, a more tar crew is at work, hopg to repel russian forces on the ....
It s important for people to understand the context and the de depth. kef colonel when you look at progozhin s forces and putin s military itself, can ukraine win against that combined manpower? well, if ukraine doesn t get the help from the west that it needs and if it doesn t have a way of replenishing its manpower, then it s going to be pretty tough for ukraine to actually pull out a decisive victory. what they ll need to do is they ll need to have greater tactics, use of more innovative tactics. they ve done a lot of good things so far in this war, but of course the russians are watching. and as progozhin said, he is learning from the ukrainians, and as you mentioned, that was a compliment, but it s also a warning that they re paying attention and they re going to use what the ukrainians do against them as much as they can. all right. ....
And what is most incredible about all of that is that vladimir putin appears to be completely fine with it. maybe that s why russian politicians are also happy to back progozhin and it s sort of progozhin versus the russian military institution. just look at this picture from a prominent russian lawmaker. you see him there. he is holding a sledgehammer. it is a wagner sledgehammer. this is a very provocative picture because wagner boasts about having the sledgehammer as their official symbol? why? because a sledgehammer was used to murder a look at him there brandishing. while russia s official military suffers from a lack of pretty much everything as basic as ammunition when it comes to fighting, progozhin appears to be getting more weapon. sort of their completely own supply chain. i m going to show you this. these we understand to be images of what appear to be russian railcars traveling to north korea, picking up infantry ....