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your next meal will come from. our reporters are there inside that lockdown. let's go "outfront." good evening, i am erin burnett, russia is flooding ukraine with more tanks. look at this vehicles driving one after another. they are 15 miles away from the donbas region of ukraine. zelenskyy warns tonight russian forces could soon use chemical weapons. they take this threat in ukraine seriously now. the offense continues, ukraine's top commander says there is still heavy fighting in mariupol and kharkiv russian forces launched more than 60 attacks. according to the pentagon, this is just the beginning of a full-scale assault. >> i think sadly we can all expect the same brutal tactic

and same disregard for civilian life and infrastructure will probably continue as they focus in a more geographically confined area in the donbas. >> this focus on the donbas is why zelenskyy is pleading with the west to help ukrainian forces on the battlefield by sending more weapons. putin is going all in with what he has left. general alexande r dvornikov.

ukraine was responsible for civilian killings in bucha. it is clear that putin's view of the war is now far being from ukraine as it ever was. listen to what his inner circle paraded today. >> our special operations is aimed at bringing an end to the reckless expansion and striving for domination of the united states and other western countries under their influence on a global stage. >> sergei lavrov said it. this war is about the united states now. fred pleitgen is out front live in kyiv and natasha bertrand. i want to begin with fred. >> reporter: one of the things people here are bracing for is this war is shifting antonio a new phase, of course you saw some of those and you showed

some of those images of russian forces going towards the donbas region. no one here in kyiv under any sort of illusion this will beover or heading for a longer term. never the less in this region here, you have the people here and authorities here picking up the pieces. they are finding areas to the north of the city that the destruction is at a much larger scale than anybody would have thought. we travel ared around this regi and we found so many traumatized people witnessed terrible things while they were under the russian occupation and still the authorities are finding dead bodies. we have to warn our viewers of what you are about to see is very graphic and disturbing. >> reporter: the tour is a sad routine for body collectors. finding corporases is becoming eerily normal here. corpses destroyed beyond

recognition. two bodies burned beyond recognition. a house that was occupied by russian troops a lady dead in the bedroom. a fierce fight that the under dog ukrainians drive them out. >> a fight the 81-year-old witnessed up close herville langher village. >> i am in my house and i heard everything. >> reporter: the russian troops did not bother collecting most of their own dead, more than a week after vladimir putin's army was push ed out of here. they show us the body of a russian soldier still laying in the woods. that's not all they left behind. this mining unit found hundreds

of tons of unexploded ordinance in a matter of days. including this cluster ammunition everyone the russians denied using them. these weapons are dangerous for civilians who may touch them the commander says. this is a high explosive fragmentation bomb to kill people, designed just to kill people. >> the blew up the cluster bomb and moved the heavier bombs to a different location for a massive control explosion. >> reporter: the body collecting and the mind sweeping and the clearing up of wreckage are just starting in this area. this pile of demolished vehicles already towers in the key suburbs?

kyiv. >> reporter: destruction on a massive scale and nothing to show for it. russia's military was humiliated by the ukrainians and caused a lot of harm in the process. >> reporter: and the devastated families. the newly widow weeped at the funeral for the fallen. wife of paskov killed by a russian shield. and tatiana's husband promised he would come back in a few hours but was killed defending this neighborhood. >> i am very proud of him, he's a hero, we have many people in ukraine who have not fled and are defending their homes. sasha died 200 meters from our

house where we live. laying the dead to rest, another sad task that's becoming all too tradition. close by the next funeral is underway. >> reporter: erin, you can see there is a lot of sadness and anger. there is also a great deal of resilience as well. one of the things we have been seeing which is a positive sign here for this country and this city is there are actually a lot of people who are returning from being in the west of the country and being abroad to the city. what we saw today was areas that have been completely empty for a long period of time and had children playing on the playground that is a sign that life is coming back here. >> thank you very much, fred. u.s. officials say putin may retaliate against the united states for supporting ukraine. natasha bertrand broke the story, what more are you

learnle learning? >> reporter: putin's risk tolerance had gone up. russia had been loosing the war in ukraine and they are angry and putin may lash out. that could manifest of him targeting the u.s. elections. he did not need an excuse to do that. he did it in 2016 and 2020. his actions that he orders could be more aggressive than we have seen and targeting election infrastructures itself. there is no direct intelligence right now. we are told that putin made a decision to interfere in the elections, the midterm election could be one of his fatargets here. how he wants to retaliate against the west and the american election may be a prime target for him. >> thank you very much natasha

with that breaking news. the former army, and steve hall, let me start with you, steve, you hear natasha that putin may take more aggressive actions against the united states. you heard her words. risk tolerance is up traumatically. why now and how serious is this? >> the most alarming thing is the risk tolerance piece of this. there is no doubt that most of us understood as things continue to go poorly for putin, he's going to become less predictable and compounding that problem. he clearly understands things are not going well. that is an increase of the question of what's the plan and intentions for the kremlin.

you have to ask yourself sort of what's the point, why? they're successful during this war in 2016. the goal was not only to increase the likelihood of the candidate they liked, kacandida donald trump. do they want to get some congress seats or senators or divide because this is an issue where there is considerable certainly for the times that wes are in now. bipartisan support against pew t putin's war and ukraine. cyber wise we are still very vuln vulnerable. >> risk tolerance up dramatically. dictator autocrat with 6,000 war heads. putin appointed the new general.

is this war about to change general? >> no, erin, it is going to be much tougher for sure. we know this is coming. the appointment of general dvornikov. he certainly has the experience. there are no more military skills required to kill civilians. that's what he's going to continue to do. there is good news associated with this. he's now going to be the key

mill trump military key person right under putin. we'll continue the see things in the ukraine city. there will be attempt by the russian military coming up from mare poll to the south and zuni, i think even though you show this long cold column, they'll run into problems with log logistics. they'll continue to run into more determined ukrainian force, ukra ukrainian that the russians have used over the last month. there is going to be more fears in their fighting capability. the point is this is a tough battle in the donbas. the russians are going to attempt to encircle the eastern element of that country and sol. i believe the ukrainian soldier will fight into this with very mobile and adapt tactics.

they'll continue to go after the very long lodgistic trails. >> send up your drones and if they're able to attack. speed moving convoys. >> the he met with mew fortin and he said it was important to confront with putin one-on-one. >> this was not a nice conference. i tote him, what is important on a personal hearing. >> you need to look at each other in the eye and talk about the war. >> he was emphasizing how putin is. >> do you think there could be any impact at this point?

>> i don't think. let's face it, i don't think anybody is going to shutdown with vladimir putin and the light bulbs are going to go out. oh, i guess that's a bad idea. >> the poll lish president had to sasay. putin does crave attention and he craves recognition from the west. but, on the other side of it. the australians are a little different. they're a little different from european allies. they are members of the eu. i think him going into meet with putin sends a message what everyone those of us who are not annato members, we are still united against you and still hold you accountable. i am okay with it. it makes sense to have putin to hear that from someone that's

not jewish or from poland. >> he's asking for a whole long list of things including tanks and drones. >> what can the united states do that actually help right now from a tactical perspective? >> from a tactical specific, i suggest that ukrainians fight in the donbas has to be rapid in its approach, it can't have a large lodgistic tails. they have to establish units and they can move quickly and counter attack on a moment's notice, whenever ever russia breaks through some of tp cities. this is a city of about 45,000 people, it has a river running into it in two different directions baa it had roads going into four different directions. >> ensure you have a reserve

from ukrainians that than counter attack that ukrainians have been so good at on the first page of this war. they have to be light, fast and ultimately a lot of weapons they are familiar with. shipping them with more weapons, a lot of people are craving that. >> i am one of the ones who said you dabt you can't build new equipment in a short task. >> thank you both very much. and next, russian forces turning their attention to the south. the governor of one city has been the target since the start of the war. the top putin's extra credit

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russia continues to launch missiles into mykolaiv as putin moves south and east. mykolaiv governor, i appreciate your time. miykolaiv has been the target o this war. we understand the russians can increase their assault in the east and the south, mykolaiv can come under brutal assault. how worried are you of what's coming? >> we are worried. we are preparing for anything to come because we don't know what the russians are planning.

we are going to defend. for now, we are afraid but not a lot. in the south, our army is in position for now. >> so the kremlin right now does admit that there is been russian casualties and they have been significant. that's a big shift for them. they suffered significant losses. i know the troop deaths were so high for where you are for russians, you called your residents to help and collect the corpses that were piling up and your quote, "we are not be beasts, are we?" how are significant are the russian losses in mykolaiv? >> it was two weeks ago.

the world changed a little bit. now we are defending and for after two weeks, we picked up all the bodies and move to refrigerators and send testimony back to their country. now we are almost cleaned up, our territory of the bodies of russians. >> only after four weeks. you are saying the bodies you did collect, the corpses, you

refrid ref refridgerated them and sent them to north. >> governor, what is if you had to say the things that you need most right now at this point in the world, what would it be? >> to tell the truth, we need weapons and we need it right now. you can't understand, our people are dying everyday. everyday with your weapons and help are moving to us, everyday our people are dying especially east of ukraine. this is a huge problem. russians attack with rockets and

bombs and the main problem the civilians die everyday. we need weapons and we need it quickly. >> governor kim, thank you. >> you are welcome. >> next, he's called the butcher of syria. he's leading the invasion of putin's. he was once a guest on this show, he survived two suspected poisoning. he joins us from moscow. he was detained there. my garden is my therapy. find more ways to grow at miracle-gro.cocom.

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tonight a grim warning at the white house about the new russian general overseeing the situation in ukraine, things could get worse around this so-called a butcher. we should have no illusions that russia is going to adjust their

tactics and make themless brutal. >> so what else do we know about him and what does it mean for putin's invasion of ukraine. oren liebermann is out front. >> reporter: a new phase comes with a new commander, general dvornikov. the shift to southeast ukraine. the 60-year-old career soldier is a veteran of russian wars in different countries, each campaign, savage. >> what we have seen in the past that we probably turning another page in the same book of russians brutality. >> reporter: russian forces destroyed the city where dvornikov spent three years

climbing the military ranks, first as a chief of staff and commander. years later when russia sent its forces in syria to prompt up the regime there, dvornikov was the first commander. his tactic designated the city of aleppo and with little regard for scivilian life. it earned him the reputation of a butcher. >> he certainly has reputation and career experiences. there is no skills required to kill civilians. >> reporter: vladimir putin's decision to appoint dvornikov is an acknowledgment that the russians have failed and lack of coordination. russian troops ran out of fuel and food and easy targets for ukrainian forces.

russians moral suffered and communications broke down and supply lines fell apart. the appointment of dvornikov is an attempt to fix that. >> a change over personnel or leadership at the top is not going to erase the fact that this is a strategic, a failure for russia. >> russia has destroyed the entire section of ukrainian cities killing civilians and committing atrosscitatrocities. u.s. officials warned he'll make it worse under dvornikov. russian mercenaries known for their brutal tactics. >> this general will be another author of crimes and brutality against ukrainian civilians and the united states as i said before is determined to do all that we can to support the ukrainians to resist him and

resist the forces he commands. >> reporter: do we see of dvornikov? we saw quite a bit of chief of defense and minister of defense, we have not seen much of this as this is going from days or weeks or month. is dvornikov in line for a move there? it is one of aspects we'll keep an eye on. >> now we know there is a commander. oren liebermann, thank you so much for that report. i want to go to our russian journalist, a watchdog of the secret service activities that's now blocked in russia. so when you hear oren reporting, what do you think of putin's appointing general dvornikov as the commander of the war now? >> dvornikov is known of his

army and commander in the south district, he knows personally. unfortunately, it is bad news for civilians in mariupol and donbas because the they dvornikov fights. just completely disregard for civilians. >> so you know a top putin's critics, he survived two poisoning and he was arrested today outside his home of moscow. i spoke to him if march. and he said and i quote, talking about the war" there is no limits of what vladimir putin can do, the tragedy is unpredictable. so many people warn the world of

who vladimir putin is and what it will lead to." >> he did the interview with me he got on the plane and went back to moscow. what information do you have on his situation? >> he's a generation of political politician who lives in two countries of the united states and moscow. he's extremely effective as a politician in moscow. it looks like right now it is enough. what he's facing now is 15 days in prison. usually a way to send a message that we are not operated in country. you would face more and more prison time until you leave. >> so that context, president biden is suggesting putin is firing his top adviser and he's

putting under in house arrest. there just seems to be a slew of this. a lot of them is in vladimir putin's inner circle. what is the latest you are hearing from that andrei. we observed intell intelligence -- prison is a horrible place to prisons that are under control of the intelligence service admits it is impossible to communicate with anyone outside if you are in this prison. it is not for harsh psychological conditions. putin now means business and a

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>> reporter: gia was born in georgia, he didn't think he would be back here just yet. his family fleeing the georgians civil war. it was in moscow where they met the life. he told them the truth of the h horrors in ukraine. he worries what would happen if one of his teachers echo this propaganda that this war is just -- >> you are worried that your son -- >> reporter: the family left for georgia a few days after the war began. anya is not convinced they'll be safe either. >> reporter: if no one stops putin, she can go to georgia and the west. she's not alone in her fears. georgians had a long history

with russia. in the capital, nearly two dozen protesters killed as they ab advocated for independence. people gathered to mark the anniversary of that massacre. georgia's flags joined with ukraine now called national unity day. >> it is made more important given what we see russian troops do in ukraine. >> reporter: decades of russian aggression here left deep scars and many see parallels between pu putin's invasion of ukraine and what they fear could happen in georgia. >> do you think there is a chance that russia could invade

georgia again? >> yes. >> every country. >> reporter: gia and his family wholeheartedly agree. they don't want their children and grandchildren to grow up in what they call north korea 2.0. for that, grandmother says people must understand a crucial point. the whole world must understand that ukraine is not fighting for itself, it is fighting for everyone and the whole world must unite and stop putin because he won't stop with ukraine. >> reporter: the family tells us when they were still in moscow, when they would talk to their russian friends about the war. they were shocked that people they considered themselves close to were saying lines of propaganda, things that is the government is fascious. those reactions to the war played a role in their decision to come here to georgia.

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our homes. cnn, the only u.s. tv network with a team living through the lockdown. in my community, we're only allowed out when summoned by workers using a megaphone and when dark out, a flashlight. >> getting a late evening now request to go get a covid test. my neighbors and i line up, ready for health workers to scan our qr codes which link the results to our i.d., night or day, the testing is constant. >> someone in the community tested positive, so they'll test now each of us once again. we can also leave the house to line up for government distributions or to get approved deliveries, usually the most exciting part of the day. >> looks to be vacuum sealed pork, and then several boxes of traditional chinese medicine, a bunch more face masks, a box that has a bunch of fresh fruit. on top they have some frozen meat, and then two antigen kits.

>> food deliveries this plentiful are rare, so most of us spend the morning trying to order groceries online. orders sell out quickly. not enough delivery drivers to get through the lockdown barriers. communities like mine resorting to group buys. we come together in chat groups. neighbors helping neighbors is a common theme across the city. we found a safe drop spot to trade. cheese for oranges. our communities volunteers help us source food where they can, though they too are exhausted and hungry. from above, you see this metr metropolis, quiet, eerily empty, but on the ground there are tragedies shared daily online. this man recording his father who says he's unable to get admitted to a hospital in the strained system. his dad later died, he says. in this video, a neighbor capturing the whailing of a heartbroken woman crying out that her loved one had died because of the lockdown. and this video sparked outrage

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questioning the leadership allowed asking where is the communist party? >> and aaron, as we look at this latest surge, it's worth noting that china has only approved its own chinese-made vaccines for use here. the country's national health commission says nearly 90% of folks have been fully vaccinated, but among those 80 years old and older, talking about the most vulnerable, that number drops to about half. chinese health authorities, though, they claim vaccines here are effective in reducing illness severity and deaths. though some are skeptical of the official numbers. and there's this, there's growing concern once again, this reminds me of wuhan, that china is once again under reporting covid deaths. >> well, and that's i guess the crucial question. you mentioned wuhan, david, your report by the way is phenomenal, and thank you. i know the mental duress you are under along with everyone you're with, but you were in wuhan when the covid outbreak first began. i remember seeing you there. you put on the hazmat suit. you wngitnessed it.

you witnessed that total shutdown. you say it pales in comparison to what you're living through now? >> yeah, i didn't think we'd ever go back to that tape of lockdown. the scale alone of this one goes well beyond wuhan in 2020. shanghai's population is more than twice the size of wuhan. it's about three times the size of new york city's population, and most shocking is that this is happening here in what is the country's cosmopolitan most affluent financial hub. i also think, erin, that the attitude has shifted more than two years since that initial outbreak. folks early on, they were so terrified of contracting the virus. now it seems there's greater fears for china's extreme isolation and quarantine measures, so you have fatigue, frustration, desperation, erin, all of that setting in. >> david culver, thank you very much. next, biden's candid conversation with the leader of india. did the president get india to stop buying russian oil? risk and reward.ce and with a clear plan, rayna can enjoy wherever

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president biden today having what the white house called a candid conversation with a country still funding putin's invasion. the president speaking with india's prime minister narendra modi. the candid conversation, according to a senior administration official did not include a specific request to take aside and it did not result in a firm commitment from modi to back off biuying russian oil and gas. india buys a lot of that.

according to reuters, india has purchased at least 13 million barrels since february, and that's not all. india buys somewhere between 60 and 85% of its weapons from russia, and they're still under contact to buy a 5$5.4 billion air defense system and a $3.1 billion line of tanks all from putin. and while much of the world has condemned russia, india's been on the sidelines refraining from criticizing putin, all the while giving him a continued much needed cash lifeline to faund te war. thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. as the war in ukraine enters a new and possibly even bloodier phase, we are learning about what the american intelligence community believes could be a russian counteroffensive against this country, the united states. john berman here in for anderson. according to four sources familiar with recent u.s. intelligence assessments, vladimir putin may be will