outfront next, ukraine s offensive. a widespread operation underway right now across eastern ukraine. forces on the ground claiming to be seizing territory from russia as a disturbing video tonight emerges of the russian private army holding a russian commander prisoner. plus, tonight, a cnn exclusive. a mar-a-lago employee drained the resort s swimming pool. it s flooded a room where surveillance video logs were kept of the rooms where the documents were. is an indictment imminent? a former member of trump s legal team is outfront. a war of words after another dangerous encounter between american and chinese warships. it s not just the chinese government that s angry with the united states. tonight you ll hear some of the hate, the anger coming from chinese citizens. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, show of force. ukraine s deputy defense minister telling cnn an offensive is now taking place in multiple locations across easte
Incident and the timing very suspicious as they explore an obstruction case. this news emerging on the same day that trump s legal team met with special counsel jack smith at the justice department. we understand that that meeting was about 90 minutes in length. katelyn polantz is outfront. what else do you know let s just start with this pool incident, a flooding of the room where the servers with the video logs that would have had video of anything happening in those storage rooms, it gets flooded and destroyed. how could this affect the classified documents probe? at the very least we know it s something the prosecutors are asking about as they look into this possibility that there could have been attempts to obstruct the investigation. so, one of the people, a maintenance worker who was the person that drained the pool that caused the flooding of the room where the i.t. equipment was kept, where the surveillance footage was kept, that maintenance worker and another man who is
To an investigative journalist, who is a wanted man in russia, his reporting team has been able to identify this russian commander. he s going to share some information with you about that. but first i want to go to kyiv where fred pleitgen is tonight. as we understand this offensive may indeed and in meaningful ways be underway, what is the latest there? reporter: there certainly is a lot going on in the vast battlefields here in ukraine. but the bottom line of things really is that the russians don t seem to be gaining any ground anywhere while the initiative certainly seems to be with the ukrainians. we have that situation in belgorod where the russians still have a lot of problems coming to terms with things there. also in bakhmut, the ukrainians really think that they re making gains there. the russians are saying that they re also under pressure from the ukrainians in the south of the country. russian military drone video allegedly showing a massive ukrainian attack in the sout
Videotapes. there s no missing footage. and while i appreciate that they re going through and trying to so you re saying they see possible gaps, and you re saying there are no gaps? they haven t discussed any gaps with us, at least not when i was there. the video was complete. there s not any gaps to be had, as far as i m aware. so, i know that they re trying to dot all the is here. but they have the actual video. i don t know what they re looking for there. as to the boxes moving the day before, they were moving boxes while evan was conducting the search as part of helping him to conduct the search, as i understand it. a lot of these, you know, rumors and leaks and innuendos regarding obstruction don t really fit into the actual time line. let me ask you about what happened today. we understand a 90-minute meeting that happened with the special counsel jack smith at
New video showing plumes of smoke rising over the region. russia claims it stopped an offensive in the region. so there is right now as this offensive appears to be underway, a true fog of war. but there are some things we do know. and one of them is that russians are actually still killing russians. in a video posted to the russian private by the russian private army telegram channel for the wagner group, this man who is believed to be a russian brigade commander. so you re seeing him there on your screen. he claims he fired at a, quote, vehicle belonging to pmc wagner while under the influence of alcohol. some sort of a confession. so then when he has pressed on why he opened fire on other russians, he responds, personal animosity. now, we can t verify when this is claimed. the fact that the russian private army claims to be holding other russian commander who they say shot at them, it s a significant development. in a moment i m going to speak