moskva. this according to a senior defense official. the kremlin has denied it was a ukrainian strike instead blaming it on a fire that detonated other ammunition onboard. they escaped the hell of war. now roughly a thousand ukrainian refugees are stranded at the u.s./mexico border in tijuana. many of them women and children who fled with nothing as refugees are often forced to do. the emotions, the exhaustion. you can see it on their faces. hundreds of them currently living inside gyms or makeshift camps. they are, like so many at the southern border, hoping for asylum in the united states. priscilla alvarez joins us now. there s about a thousand but this number is really growing. they are trying to take this route through tijuana. why? why are they focused on coming through that southern border? well, simply put, it s just easier for them to get to mexico. so, for example, if ukrainians want to come to the u.s. on a
tourist visa, they have to prove they re going to go become to their origin country and that is, of course, very difficult to prove at this time. that is not the case, though, for mexico. what some ukrainians have opted to do is to go to that mexican border city of tijuana and approach the port of entry. and there, they can be paroled into the united states on a case-by-case basis. in fact, recently over the span of a week, some 3,000 ukrainians have come in through the u.s./mexico border. that according to the homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. all of this is against the backdrop of the u.s. committing to take up to 100,000 ukrainian refugees. now the administration says that is going to happen through a full range of legal pathways, but they have not provided all of the details of how that s going to happen. now two administration officials have told cnn that part of that will include a roll out of a parole program. and what that means is a way for