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
Artillery fire on both sides was constant this. Entire villages were wiped off the map and. Never before had so many soldiers been killed in such a limited area. Or Dead Mans Hill was the scene of particularly bitter fighting. At the end of the Battle One Of The Hills Two summits was ten meters lower than it was before. Served as a laboratory for testing new weapons the german army fired poison gas in shells here for the first time. This allowed for more accurate targeting. The effect on french troops was devastating. The battle lasted from february to december one Nine Hundred Sixteen. A total of about Sixty Million shells were fired. When these missions corrode the casing comes off of it a lot of them youre left with stuff like t. N. T. High explosive which is a percentage of so now you have the constituent weight on the bottom of the ocean which will continually. Put stuff in the environment like that for the next thousand years. These materials accumulate in the ecosystem and pose
the russian military establishment has condemned is that wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin, and have said that he is playing into enemy hands. he referred to convoys that must be stopped and returned to base before it s too late and another general described yevgeny prigozhin s actions amounted to a stab in the back for president putin. we understand security has been stepped up understand security has been stepped up in moscow. we have that so stay with bbc news. hello. after what s been another fairly warm week for many of us, the weekend is set to bring something even warmer. in fact, i think the days at times will feel quite hot and the nights will be very warm and humid as well. but as we head into sunday,
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
northern fleet subs two years later he was arrested and tried for treason. the prosecutor said i m the prosecutor there s the defense attorney and you are the criminal you will go to jail that was right after i was arrested. it was the first time anyone in the soviet or russian military establishment had dared to talk about the potential dangers of military nuclear waste. when the u.s.s.r. collapsed in one thousand nine hundred one it had a fleet of approximately two hundred forty nuclear powered submarines. the nuclear fuel on those subs had to be replaced regularly and that creates nuclear waste. an average nuclear submarine can generate about two hundred cubic meters of nuclear waste over the course of ten years. some of it ends up in the ocean.