town of soledar. why the major shakeup? plus, resign. more republicans tonight calling for congressman george santos to step down after he lied about his resume. but mccarthy won t show him the door. republican governor chris sununu is outfront. is trump about to get back on facebook? how the company is making this decision. it is a story you ll see first here tonight outfront. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin s mysterious shakeup. the russian president suddenly putting in a new general to oversee his war in ukraine. and there is a huge question tonight which is why what is this all about? because it comes as russia claims its forces are on the verge of seizing the town of soledar. cnn is there, has heard the heavy artillery fire. we re going to show you in just a moment. it is artillery fire that has decimated an entire town. these are new before and after pictures just into our field team on the ground. here you ca
something much deeper. and it appears to be at the center of putin s general shakeup. because the man that putin has now picked to run the invasion is backed by the russian military establishment which has failed so miserably in so many parts of this war. backed by putin s minister of defense sergei shoigu and the man that he is replacing has the backing of yevgeny prigozhin of the wagner group. so, tonight, in this play, this chess game, it is a fight for the ultimate military power in putin s regime. and in the meantime russians are dying, a lot of them. it is taking a major toll on the russians alive still fighting. listen to this. here s a new intercepted call that ukraine s defense intelligence says is from a russian soldier. translator: they are shipping us back to russia. they are saying that after that