their own city overnight. a russian warplane targets the wrong side of the border, damaging buildings and leaving a 130 ft crater in its wake what the russian defense ministry is now saying and in court today, three men charged in connection with a white nationalist rally in charlottesville will appear before a judge and cnn is live outside the court. new this morning, deeply disturbing details about the kentucky bank shooter from notes he himself wrote police now piecing together his motive for the massacre were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. new overnight. a large blast rocked a russian city near the ukrainian border, and they did it to themselves. you can see it right here as one of russia s own planes targets its own city firing into that city, russia state news agency says a russian jet dropped the bomb during a mid air emergency over the city of belgorod. you can see that city is over the border from
potential situation here. but they are being explicit in saying that they are making preparations to get out the u. s. citizens who are in the country were held and we should consider the fact that there are 16,000 of them. that s according to the latest state department numbers. we don t know when those were updated. many of those could be of course, dual citizens of sudan in the united states about 500. 100 of them have, you know gotten in contact with the u. s embassy? since this fighting has erupted, and 50 of those has have asked for assistance now. traditionally the state department doesn t help evacuate citizens from a country but this is a very unique situation because you have the airport that s been closed. you have borders. you know, the sudan chad border that s been closed. so this is a precarious situation. now what we do know is that there are preparations underway to get out the u. s. state department officials who are in the country. those are the diplomats . you know t
dominic figaro. the 29-year-old nurse from california traded in a week off from work to jump on a plane to poland and take care of ukrainian refugees. there was one moment i news the story of a mother carrying her child in tears as she was crossing the border. and i knew that i had to do something about it. dominic is volunteering with a catholic charity group which is on the ground in poland offering refugees food and shelter. they have also taken in thousands of orphans and hospice residents fleeing ukraine. according to the state department numbers, more than 85% of ukrainians identify as christian, largely orthodox catholic. now in their time of need, dominic says he has seen refugees cling to their faith even more. ukrainian people are very faithful people. so it s might be the only anchor right now for them. so while it s hard to see beyond the pain and suffering in
off from work to jump on a plan to poland and take care of ukrainian refugees. there s one more thing and i heard right on the news a story of a mother during her child in tears as she was crossing the border. dominic is volunteering with the catholic group on the groun in poland offering refugees foo and shelter. they ve also taken in thousands of orphans and hospice resident fleeing ukraine. according to state department numbers, more than 85% that you create he is identify as christian. largely orthodox catholic. now in their time of need, dominic says he seem refugees cling to their faith even more. people are very faithful people. they might be the only anchor right now for them. so while it is hard to see beyond the pain and suffering i this small train station, dominic says it is within that suffering that you will find
out what went wrong and who we can hold accountable. todd: you heard antony blinken mention 300 american citizens still in afghanistan. that said, there are concerns, congressman, the number of americans there is much higher. take a listen to former naval intel officer, john jordan. we re relying on state department numbers. most people don t know this, when americans go to foreign countries, especially risky ones, they re advised to register with the embassy or consulate but are not required to. we don t know the real number of u.s. citizens that are there. todd: do you trust the state department numbers? if not, how many people do you think are in afghanistan, how many americans do you think are in afghanistan? i don t trust the state department s numbers. if you think back a few days, the administration, they were estimating tens of thousands of americans were still in afghanistan and then if you subtract the number that we ve