were back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. us diplomatic personnel and their families are now safely out of sudan as the african nation descends into increasing violence. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti and a dramatic overnight evacuation about 100. us special operations forces carried out a daring mission today, the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. and the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and arrival paramilitary group more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000, potentially as many as 19,000 americans in sudan. most though, are dual nationals and our correspondents are well positioned here. and overseas to bring you all of the angles of this developing story. let s go to cnn s sam kiley live from djibouti. he s gonna be there in just a moment. let s begin with cnn s oren liebermann . he s over at the pentagon o
can join those convoys so long as they are prepared to take the risk and provide their own vehicles. of course. vehicles are one thing, but then you ve got to fuel them. you ve got to get water. you ve got to get food and that those essential items are in very, very short supply as khartoum continues to be the scene, a very heavy fighting one of the aspects of the fighting in khartoum, which i think is very important to get across, is that it s in a series of different pockets. there isn t a clear front line between one side and the other they all controlling various elements and bits of neighborhoods, so it s a deeply chaotic ah landscape british forces had to travel 18 kilometers over land between a mustering point where they evacuated from, for example, very lucky that they didn t end up in some kind of firefight. so far as we understand, jim alright. lucky indeed. alright sam kiley. thank you very much. please stay safe in that region appreciate the reporting so much coming up. the
were back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. us diplomatic personnel and their families are now safely out of sudan as the african nation descends into increasing violence. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti and a dramatic overnight evacuation about 100. us special operations forces carried out a daring mission today, the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. and the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and arrival paramilitary group more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000, potentially as many as 19,000 americans in sudan. most though, are dual nationals and our correspondents are well positioned here. and overseas to bring you all of the angles of this developing story. let s go to cnn s sam kiley live from djibouti. he s gonna be there in just a moment. let s
in russian because i know a bit of russian. and the influence of the russians are very significant with the rsf has spoken with a lot of commanders from the r s f and they say, yeah, we have russians in our bases. we have russian military advisers. you would see russians around the city. there are always kind of lost. to be honest, they didn t really know what they were doing, and they didn t really seem to know either. um, but certainly russia is a key player in this, but we shouldn t really, i think overstate their influence, because really committee and the rsf the really using russia to try and get as much money and gold well, really as much money as they can from the russians. the russians want gold. the russians want minerals. that s what they want. absolutely alright, well, something to keep her eyes on. i have a feeling very busy lending your expertise on this in the coming days. justin lynch. thanks very much for your time. we appreciate it. let s go back to sam kiley, who was