already ramping up its assault tonight. plus, a major update to a story we ve been following. the fbi now investigating congressman george santos for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars meant to help a veteran s dying dog. this is the $17,000 that sontose claims he spent in florida reportedly doesn t add up either. hunter biden s attorneys now calling for a criminal investigation into rudy giuliani and others over the laptop found at a delaware computer repair shop. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, half a million more russian fighters. that s what ukraine is bracing for tonight, 500,000 more russians and a major onslaught. here s ukraine s defense minister with the chilling warning. translator: officially, they announced 300,000. but when we see the troops at the borders, according to our estimates, it is much more. we think that they have already mobilized 500,000. 500,000. it sounds huge on an absolute basis, and if it pans out, it is huge. just to give y
threat of something like that happening is very real and certainly does continue also. but we were indeed also on the front lines today in a ukrainian trench. and in the time that we were there, the shelling there never stopped, and the fighting there never stopped either. here s what we witnessed. [ sound of gunfire ] all-out winter warfare on the eastern front. we re in a trench with ukrainian paratroopers. they fire on russian positions using aks and a u.s.-supplied browning heavy machine gun. they re searching for weak spots in our position, says the commander, call sign ghost. they want to see if we fight back. if we show strong resistance, though, they don t advance. and this is what strong resistance looks like. the russians are only about 400 yards away, hidden in the snow and fog but constantly firing at
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border. but a series of demands from russia, and varying expectation levels are clouding the possibility of a long-term resolution. i want to go to nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel. he is in eastern ukraine at a frontlines of the john going conflict. and he was just in a ukrainian trench. just a few hours ago when i saw you on today. that s where you were. not far from the russian border. so richard, take us through what ukrainians are watching for today, and the context, perhaps, of your own firsthand experience at the border there. so first i ll start with what we saw in the trenches along the border. the ukrainian military is on high alert. they are expanding the trenches, and we were watching soldiers today digging new trenches or widening the trenches that were there, expanding the trench network. and this is incredibly hard back-breaking work. one using a spade to break the ice, the trenches are now