region, 50 strikes in just the past 24 hours as putin s forces are in turmoil. tonight, one russian soldier is now accused of killing his commander. plus, incoming congressman george santos under even more scrutiny tonight. a district attorney now looking into the new york republican s litany of lies as cnn s k-file uncovers even more discrepancies about his education. and a covid crackdown. the u.s. announcing it will now require travelers from china, where covid is raging, to show a negative test before entering the country. what s china s response? let s go outfront. good evening. i m sara sidner in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, 50 rocket strikes in just 24 hours. that s the extent of russia s brutal onslaught in the kherson region of southern ukrainian according to a ukrainian official. now civilians there are being urged to evacuate immediately. it comes as intense fighting is underway in eastern ukraine where russian troops are moving out of a key city,
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the strictest border controls in the world but now that china is finally opening up and cases here are surging, well, other countries are getting nervous. so in addition to the u.s., so far japan, india, japan, taiwan and italy have all put covid testing requirements in place. in fact, taiwan and japan said if the traveler from china tests positive for covid upon arrival they ll have to quarantine for several days. now, the big concern from countries like the u.s. is a lack of data from china that could help detect new variants. but the global consortium that maintains a data base of coronavirus sequences, they said all the genome sequences china has shared so far do closely resemble the variants already circulating in other parts of the world. but sara, the u.s. says that data shared isn t enough. but selina, you ve been covering this and you ve shown that it aappears that covid is raging in china, even after china has consistently defended its extremely rigid strategy. so what s it
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