it could have been me. >> the u.n. says more than 1,000 civilians have been killed in russia's war in ukraine. may their memories be a blessing. wolf, we'll be back again tomorrow live from poland throughout the day, including a special edition of "the situation room" from 5 to 7 p.m. eastern. erin burnett starts right now. breaking news, russia forced to make a major shift on the battlefield as ukraine's president now puts russian troop deaths at more than 16,000. plus, it's known as putin's private army. tonight a top official tells cnn the vogner group is in ukraine with a mission to kill the president. and a russian oligarch says he doesn't know if he'll survive.

i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. russia's staggering losses. in tonight zelenskyy -- >> translator: 16,000 lost. why is it so? >> we can't confirm that number. it is in any absolute term an incredible loss of military life. 16,000 in more than a month as compared to more than 2,300, 2,300 americans dying during the entire 20-year war in afghanistan versus 16,000 in a little more than 20 days. if true, it is a massive toll

and most like livly one of the reasons that russia is calling in backup, putin moving in troops from the independent country of georgia, a country russia invaded and took a region of back in 2008. it all comes as russia may be losing its group on the ukrainian region of kherson. there are areas that were under full russian control. officials saying, quote, we would argue that kherson is contested territory again. and kherson is crucial. it is an area along the black sea so it's that crucial sea access. it was first occupied by russian forces on march 3rd after days of devastating strikes. just yesterday the mayor of the city posted this photograph that you have see of a ukrainian flag that you see draped on the side of city hall. this could be part of the reason why a russian general in a public briefing said while the russians are now and were always focused on donbas region, not

all the other cities they invaded, the two biggest in ukraine, kyiv, and it has inflicted an incredible cost on civilians. mariupol tonight, the u.n. said it believes there are multiple mass graves, plural, emphasize this. one of them that they believe has at least 200 bodies. we have reporters across ukraine and in poland where president biden is tonight. i want to begin with sam kiley in kyiv. sam, what more are you learning about what russia is now saying about its plans now? >> reporter: well, in this extraordinary briefing being given in moscow, the spokesman effectively for the ministry of defense completely changing the agenda, the military mission for the russians from originally as putin, vladimir putin described

it, denazification, demilitarization of ukraine and ultimately to topple the presidency and take over the country. now the argument is, no, no, all along it's always been about the donbas, those two areas in ukraine recognized by russia as independent, it's all about securing that region, a massive change in agenda. because of ultimately the russian campaign has run into the mud. it is not gaining the momentum it needs in order to catch kyiv or even cities like mariupol that have been devastated but hold out. allies of ukraine and poor discipline and chaos in the ranks of the russians. this is how some of the people who have been victims saw the russians at work.

>> russian armor smashed in a ukrainian assault. ukraine claims to have blocked russia's offensive against kyiv. he said we've been engaged in counterattack and the operation has been a complete success. we decisively repelled the energy. at times it's been a ferocious fight, here ambushing russians from the air. tank crews are sent running for cover. ukraine has claimed that badly led russian forces have more manpower but they are reeling under attacks and lack of supplies. what they say may be true, according to this woman who is tending to her wounded husband in the nearby hospital. her village was overrun by

russians and she described dealing with russian soldiers who were hungry, cold and out of control. she said, "they wore my woman's hat, my clothes, my boots. they took my bedding. i don't know what they've done with it. they slept, they ate, they wandered about. they stole our money. a russian soldier, whom she said was drunk, blasted her husband's leg off with a stolen shotgun. so then we were two days in the basement, she said. we started stopping the blood flow and giving first aid. we've got two medics. i'm a midwife and there was a nurse with us. she said the two russian officers later admitted that they didn't support putin's invasion and others helped her evacuate her husband to ukrainian lines. maxim, a professional ukrainian soldier was shot in the shin during a firefight a few miles

from the hospital. he shares her contempt for russian soldiers. the commands ers are sending thr soldiers to the slaughter. the officers don't pity them. they doesn't even count their losses. civilians here do. andre arrived at the hospital when we were there. he'd been helping his brother, a bee keeper, attend his hives when russian shells fell among them throw hours earlier. mortally wounded, dmitry was dead. he said these aren't people, they aren't animals. i don't know what to call them. now ultimately, erin, we've got to be very careful in terms of the allegations coming from the ukrainians about the number of russians dead or from their allies in the pentagon, but 16,000 does sound like an astronomical number.

of course people don't know how many civilians have been killed in this war, except given the wholesale slaughter, it's going to be very, very high. erin. >> it certainly is. thank you very much, sam, with such an important reminder that we really don't know about the death. outfront now, spider marks and let me start with you, general marks. officials tell cnn that kherson is not as solidly in russian control. in kyiv they're in defensive positions, not advancing and they're moving troops into ukraine as apparent reinforcements as some sort. where does the fight stand right now, general? >> well, it's very difficult to say the ukrainians are winning or the russians are winning. what we see is this picture of tremendous tactical advantages being achieved by the ukrainians, incredible will to

exist. they're fighting a three-dimensional maneuver war, which the russians certainly are not. then on the flip side of that, the russians are stepping back refusing to engage with the ukrainians because they're getting defeated quite severely in this time of minute combat but they're using artillery and rockets and hitting civilian targets. you have ghastly images of civilians being round pwounded killed and then you look at the ukrainians and they're pushing back quite considerably. so you have a stalemate, if you will, at the tactical level yet to be seen what the operational results will be. >> so putin spoke today. in this speech he railed about the west and compared what is happening to russia to what happened to j.k. rowling when she took on some gender issues. she wrote "harry potter." here's what he said.

>> translator: children's book writer j.k. rowling was recently cancelled because she authored books that spread far and wide did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedom. they are trying today to cancel our people. >> there's a lot there to talk about but i wanted to focus in on this word, cancel. that's the buzz word, right, among many in the west. certainly in the u.s., cancel culture. it shows an incredible knowledge of what the west is doing at best, obsession with what the west is doing. what's he doing here? >> it's amazing that we're talking about a british author, the author of the harry potter series in the middle of the ukrainian war. what's happened is the russians have learned from their active measures campaign in 2016 when they were trying to overturn our election and they learned most importantly what are their dog whistles for the most populist

parts of any society, whether it's the severe right wing in their country or the same in france and germany and other places in europe and he's using that terminology to trigger those peoplew. when you use cancel or cancel culture, a lot of people in the west will think maybe something is going on. vladimir putin is trying to use this against the west. he does this when he talks about traditional values in russia, that's code for anti-gay, lgbtq and racist and that's the code that he uses. it's interesting how quickly he's picked up on the western vo c vocabulary. >> there are groups that if you say cancelled, they're going to jump on your side. when you talk about a tactical stalemate, which could be a regroup and refresh for russia

but ukraine said it's killed another russian general. that is six so far. you're getting into unprecedented military with any military conflict, certainly in modern times when they're not usually on the actual front line. does this surprise you this is happening like this? every few days we're hearing about a general killed. >> no, it doesn't surprise me because what the ukrainians are doing, they're fighting a 21st century war against a 20th century opponent. the ukrainians are blocking the communications, they're jamming tactical communications of the russians. the russians do not have secure communications. they're resorting to cell phones but those linkages and those international dialing codes back to russia are being blocked by the ukrainians. and so when you have a commander that is in information blackout, he has no situational awareness, he doesn't know why his units aren't fighting, he doesn't know why there's this big convoy that's not moving, so he's got to move forward to figure out what the heck is going on, puts

himself at great exposure, gets out of his vehicle, talks to a couple of troops and then somebody puts a bullet in his head. that's what's going to happen when you get up front and you're not protected and you're trying to lead from the front without additional protection. >> the person who is supposed to be nominally running all this, though they say there's no commander running it but there's technically someone supposedly in charge, that's the defense min minister for russia meech has been m.i.a. for about a week. yesterday he was seen on russian tv in a video meeting with putin. i mentioned it yesterday. it gets really bizarre. he's on the top left on putin's screen. when the video starts, you can see it, it's as it -- well, it's a weird movement and, yeah, you can see. it's as if it's a racked video, right? they're rewinding it, they're zooming in on it.

in other words, it's not live. and he's not wearing his military uniform. he appears to be wearing the exact same thing the last time he was seen in one of these calls, which was all the way back on march 11th. so what do you have think is going on here? >> let's start with what we know, erin. we know in imperialist they did this all the time. it was common place to have somebody's picture up if they hadn't been seen in a long time. we got substituted videos and old videos that were moved in. that's all very, very common. it seems to be clear that's kind of what happened here. it certainly appears to be what happened here with the most senior guy in the military. the question is -- it's sort of like where's waldo? we don't know. all we have is anecdotal stuff

which looks like he's wearing the same thing. and putin was caught doing the same thing, clearly taped back to back but used at different times later on. you would think if his deputy is out there making these commentaries about the goals of the war, would you think think that he himself would also be out there because that's part of his job but he's not. so where is he? we don't know. >> if you're saying everything is going to plan, we always wanted it to be this way, you would have your top guy come out and say it, not his deputy. >> and "outfront" next, horrifying new images outside that mariupol theater. we are finally getting images and finally knowing the dead. plus a group dubbed putin's private army now said to be inside ukraine. according to one ukrainian

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which was hit by that russian air strike, the one that said "child" on both sides. there's video showing people escaping down a staircase to leave, debris on the floor, holes in the wall. there were about a thousand people. most of them survived. that's all cuff say wyou can sa about it but a lot of them didn't. the city council announcing 300 were killed in that attack. 300 people seeking shelter there, maybe all, virtually of all women and children who had taken shelter there were killed by that russian air strike. 300 people in one strike. outfront now, a member of ukraine's parliament. ina, i am -- well, i'm not glad to speak to you but thank you for coming on. i'm sad to have to talk to you about this because it's awful. can you actually grasp that 300 people killed in one instance, almost all of them appearing to be women and children killed in

one instant by a russian air strike? >> well, i will tell you this, when we first heard the news about this theater, we did know there were over 1,000 people there and we did see a video which was shot basically a couple of hours before the missile hit, which was showing hundreds of people there. so we knew the death toll will be terrifying but we were still hopeful, but 300 people is so many. but you have to realize that this is not the old people who have been killed in mariupol. there was this story that was circulating in ukrainia in the media recently about a woman, a teacher from mariupol, she came to the ukraine-hungarian border with four kids, one child was her own, one was the child of her sister. the sister went to look for water and never came back. the third child was a child of hadar neighbor's who were killed in an air strike and then she was running with those three

kids and she just found a kid on the street sitting next to his dead parents and she just grabbed that kid and just took him to the evacuation bus. and she managed to escape but the bus that was traveling right after them actually came under fire by russians, hit another bus with other kids being evacuated. that is happening in mariupol right now. there are kids sitting next to their dead parents not knowing what to do and where to go and russians are not allowing for the majority of them to leave. >> the u.n. believes there are mass graves now in mariupol, plural. we don't know how many but it is more than many. they say some are holding up to 200 bodies. what have you heard about mass graves in mariupol? >> we unfortunately have heard about that about a week ago. we actually have also heard about the mass graves in about 30 kilometers from kyiv and of

course in mariupol as well. the worst thing is there are so many people who are dead in their own apartments or basements and we don't even know about that. the rescue workers were not able to get to the children in the basement of that theater because the site was constantly shelled by russians, specifically on that site. so i'm afraid that the death toll, particularly in mariupol, would be just so big, we can't even imagine that as of yet. and russians do not allow any help. >> the suffering of those who are dying in that scenario, it's really horrible to contemplate. the defense ministry for ukraine tonight is saying that russia is taking ukrainians to russia. as far as the remote and isolated island, all the way over in the pacific, essentially as far east as you can go in russia. now, when we spoke last, you told me russians were relocated

ukrainians to filt tration camp filtering for nazi characteristics. what's the latest you're hearing about this? >> unfortunately we are hearing more and more. it is actually getting closer and closer. just the other day my assistant got a phone call from her friend saying you work for an mp, can you talk to someone? i got a phone call from my relatives who were given a 30 seconds phone call just to tell they are being taken out of russia. so what russians are doing on the streets in mariupol right now, they are -- it's under their control, speaking on the loudspeaker and saying that we -- and you have to realize people in mariupol do not have any connection. they don't know what's happening in any other part of the world except the basement they're hiding in. they say the only way for you to

survive is to escape with us to russia so you have to come with us. and we are hearing more and more report of that. i just today, a couple of hours ago, i read a big report of a woman who managed to escape and to deliver the message through the journalists about that. it is actually continuing and the numbers of people who have been relocated is on growing. and unfortunately you announced that the red cross has recognized this problem and they're trying to deal with it in a very i would say weird way by trying to help people in those filtration centers, which to me is completely unacceptable. but that is the recognition that this is actually taking place. >> certainly a row flexeflectio it is real. thank you. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> we are learning about a group called putin's private army

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tonight the senior ukrainian official telling cnn that a group of russian military contractors nicknamed putin's private army is in ukraine with the goal of assassinating president zelenskyy. davi david mckenzie is outfront tonight. >> it's a recruitment style pitch, allegedly for the notorious vogner group. a senior ukrainian defense official tells us that the contractors were in the country and had a very specific mission.

what is their objective do you think in ukraine right now? >> they wanted to assassinate the leadership of ukraine, our president and prime minister. so that was the goal and a couple of groups, a couple of people were sent to ukraine without any success. >> translator: i am here. we are not putting down arms. >> reporter: the primary target, he says, president volodymyr zelenskyy. special forces outline their alleged mission. he said several operatives have been eliminated, identified by their unique dog tags. cnn couldn't independently corroborate the account. >> we need to find all these people and they need to go to the court. they absolutely illegal. >> reporter: contractors surfaced in eastern ukraine in 2 2014 exposed by research group

and cnn investigations. their respirations span the middle east and africa. u.s. officials accuse of them of multiple human rights abuses in multiple countries. in this disturbing 2017 video investigated by cnn, they appear to be torturing and murdering a syrian man as they make jokes. the kremlin said the incident had nothing to do with the russian military operations in syria and they've repeatedly denied any links. u.s. officials say that vogner are the staffsrted by this chec and bankrolled by an oligarch so close to the leader that he's nicknamed putin's chef. >> they want blood, they want to fight. >> reporter: but this senior researchers at the dossier center says vogner is putin's

private army. they've spent years investigating their links to the kremlin. >> they operate without any laws, without any rules. they can do whatever they want. then when there is a call to mr. putin what your guys are doing in this particular country, the response will be these are individuals, they have no link to the kremlin. >> ukraine's president says he isn't going anywhere. now, the ukrainian military is telling us that, in fact, vogner is trying to recruit hundreds, perhaps even more mercenaries to that region to join the future against ukraine, perhaps in the eastern part of the country, erin. because this group has this

plausible deniability with putin, they think that this might be a way to really increase the atrocities, amazing as that might be, that are occurring in ukraine. erin. >> horrible. an incredible report. david mckenzie there from london. i want to go to the russian investigative journalist, the watch dog of. russian secret service activities. what is the relationship between this mercenary group and putin himself? >> well, this relationship was quite close from the beginning and this group was funded and helped and supported by a businessman who is extremely close to vladimir putin and they knew each other from the 1990s but later on it looked like the vogner group was part of the

special military intelligence and a special department was formed to supervise the activities. >> so the russian minister of defense, when you talk about the defense organization is still missing. the offensive in ukraine is stalled. the russian military death toll seems to be astounding. what are you hearing about morale in the russian military? >> well, it seems that it's not going really well and we have some interesting reports. first of all, on the national guard, we have confirmed report from the activists and lawyers with a group agora that at least 12 soldiers of the national guard refused to go to fight in to ukraine. and they were citing some russian law saying that they're supposed to act only inside the country because they are the national guard, not the army, so why the leadership wanted them

to go to ukraine. and they refused. and they have more reports now coming about the national guard. so it doesn't look very well. >> no, it's very interesting, though. it's sort of those specific stories that you're talking about, you know, they start to add up to something pretty significant. andrei, thank you as always. >> thank you. >> next, the head of the international red cross seen smiling and shaking hands with sergey lavrov, russian's foreign minister. would could be the explanation for that? after being hit with sanctions, what will happen to the mansion we see there? you know this. people are taking financial advice from memes. [b[baby spits out milk] i'll get my onesies®. ♪ “bababy one more time” by britney spears ♪ e*trade now from morgan stanley.

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putin still controlling his oligarchs. the "financial times" reporting putin personally approved roman abramovich's involvement in russia's peace talks with ukraine. this is after the ukrainian president zelenskyy reportedly asked president biden not to sanction abramovich.

for many of the oligarchs who have been sanctioned, life has changed dramatically. this is peter avin, meeting with putin. forbes estimated he was worth about $4.5 billion, telling the "financial times" now he's struggling to pay pillbills and saying we don't understand how to survive. i want to bring in the author of "inside putin's russia." you want to the penthouse in the upper class neighborhood in london and he told you, quote, our business is completely destroyed. everything which we were building for 30 years is now completely ruined and we have to somehow start a new life. what was this interview like? >> he's one of the number of the

oligarchs i've met over the years and he like his business partner built in the 90s chaos, including a big commercial bank, a retail bank and also they made a lot of money ultimately out of the russian oil sector. and it was in the 2013 or so that they actually sold out and ultimately managed to extract much of their fortune from russia and tried to reestablish themselves with businesses in the west. so they've lived this roller coaster ride from pretty modest backgrounds to billionaires with huge influence and power and now they're seeing all that frozen with an uncertain future ahead. >> it's interesting you say that. that's the story of many of the oligarchs. you start with virtually nothing

and became a billionaire overnight. aven in the interview land a sense of tone for the moment. he lamented his wife had gone from cash machine to cash machine to try to get out as much money as she should. this is money that they say is ill-begotten. then he says to you, quote, will i be allowed to have a cleaner o are a driver? i don't drive a car. maybe my step daughter will drive. so i wonder from your perspective in this interview, does he have any sense of self-awareness or any feeling of a role that he played in empowering putin over all these years? >> well, i think that he like a number of the other oligarchs have tried to stress they were operating and making much of their money preputin. i think they are [ inaudible ].

there does need to be an economic response to it. they sort of realize there's a justification to sanctions what they would argue is that they themselves had very little power or influence over vladimir putin and, indeed they -- among others he says he met putin on many occasions. he never really had any real influence, he was trying to raise the interests of his business but didn't influence the political decisions so he couldn't stop putin in his most recent military actions. >> andrew talked to me in the penthouse. he also has that mansion and it's unclear what will happen to his physical assets. i do appreciate your time very much. i want everyone to know as we wrap this, andrew had ton reporting here showing that

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the international committee of red cross under fire after its leader was photographed smiling and shaking hands with russia's foreign minister amid the war in ukraine with all the civilian targeting by russians, more as the president of the icrc met with sergei lavrov in moscow this week, saying conversations were about humanitarian needs and international humanitarian law, comes as president biden prepares to see the refugee crisis firsthand in poland, out in front a train station along the poland border and phil mattingly in warsaw at this hour. you've been covering the refugee crisis, what will he see as he meets with refugees tomorrow? >> he will get a scope of how dramatic the refugee crisis is as more than 3 million people have escaped from ukraine. the vast majority, more than 2

million of those in poland. you know, here it is approaching 1:00 in the morning and you can see how this is still the number of people looking to take trains further into europe and this is a scene that even though the number of refugees that we are seeing here in poland has slowed down quite a bit in the last week, but there are still a large number of people coming through, looking for places of safe haven in europe, and the what the president is going to hear from many of these people is the ordeals they've been through, hearing in recent days about journeys in eastern europe especially around kyiv, taking close to five days to get here to the polish/ukrainian border because of russian attacks on convoys, of civilians trying to escape, all the hazards that they find along the way, as well as checkpoints and curfews, so that is really lengthening the amount of time that people are facing to try to get out of the country. and then the one thing you hear

over and over from anyone that you talk to here, like at the train station is that they really want the world to know that if they had air support, that that would be something that would spare and save their neighborhood. so it's very likely that the president, when he's speaking with refugees tomorrow in warsaw, that that is exactly the kind of thing that they're going to hear as we well know, the united states and nato allies have been very reluctant to even entertain that idea of air support but that is something he's going to hear over and over from many of these refugees. >> ed lavondera thank you very much along the polish/ukraine border, president meeting with refugees comes hours after meeting with troops in poland, telling them this is about much more than just putin's invasion of ukraine. >> what's at stake is what are your kids and grand kids going to look like in terms of their freedom? what you're engaged in is much

more than whether or not you can alleviate the pain and suffering of the people of ukraine. >> let's go to phil mattingly with president biden, phil, obviously, the message the president wants to make, this is about much more than ukraine, obviously the same message you hear from putin for two totally different reasons but this is just hours away when biden will be meeting with refugees but he spent the whole day clarifying major remarks from the president, obviously not how they wanted to spend their day. what more can you tell me about that? >> reporter: look, you're going to hear a lot more about that broad message of the urgency and the stakes of this moment when the president gives what the white house is describing as a significant speech here in warsaw in a few hours, after meeting with those refugees, but before he can get to that point, the white house needed to clarify a couple of things, including probably one of the most delicate and significant areas of concern that we've heard over the course of the last 48 hours and that's related to chemical weapons. he was asked at his press conference yesterday about would

the u.s. respond? and he did say yes, and the nature of that response would depend on the nature of the use, but then he was asked a follow-up of what that response would entail and he said this. >> if chemical weapons were used in ukraine, would that trigger a military response from nato? >> it would trigger a response in kind. >> reporter: and erin, it's the "in kind" that gets questions from reporters today, thinking in kind would be likely a response from chemical attack, now the national security adviser jake sullivan was clear the u.s. would not use chemical weapons. the response would be reciprocal with what the president was trying to say, but later in the day when meeting with the members of 82nd airborne division troops on the ground, the president detailing the courage shown on the ground and told those troops they were going to see it soon and raised questions given the steadfast

position the president has not moved from as no u.s. troops on the ground there. making it clear, there has been no position change, the president does not intend to have u.s. troops in ukraine but still two moments the white house needed to clean up and clarify a little bit in advance of a big final day in warsaw, erin. >> and of course you'll be there with him for that, phil, thank you so much. january 6th select committee debating whether to question the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas after damning messages she sent to trump's chief of staff .

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sources say the committee is trying to decide whether it's worth questioning the supreme court justice's wife. a pretty amazing moment we're in where this is even under consideration, but there are 29, 28 more text messages where the one i just shared came from. thank you so much for joining us, you can watch "outfront" anytime on cnn go, ac 360 starts now. good evening, there are potential signs tonight of what could be a change in russian after aims in ukraine, even as the definite signs of trouble for russian forces on the ground are piling up. remember, a day ago, russia's foreign ministry said the war was going according to plan, well today a top russian general shifted focus away from that plan which, by the way was vladimir putin's stated plan toward more limited goals. the question now, is he moving the goal post? we'll ask our correspondents and military analysts in the two hours ahead. first, though, new video from inside the theater in mariupol