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Or more us citizens, many of them dual nationals, sudanese americans. in sudan. what happens to them? as seven pointed out, there is no airlift or effort to get them out. but diodes considering a number of steps that would monitor their options out, which is overhead surveillance, maybe even setting up a deconfliction line with the factions there to try to get some sort of monitoring some sort of coverage in case the american citizens in sudan do decide to try to make their way out of the country. all right. cnn's oren liebermann over at the pentagon for us. thanks so much. let's go to the whi...

Exploit for any reason the russian said is very different. they're saying this mq-9 was operating and it lost power, lost altitude and it crashed and there was no actual collision. what we are hoping is we'll get some sort of vision confirmation that will give us an idea of which side's version of events is more related to the truth here, katy we don't know a couple of other things still number one, the pentagon is declining to say whether the mg 9 was armed at the time. they say it was on a routine surveillance mission it doesn't seem either side implied what's known as the deconfliction line...

But it is really important that the diplomatic lines are still open at a low level. the mill-to-mill lines are extremely important because they serve as a deconfliction mechanism. if there's a miscommunication, without that immediate hotline, it only makes it more and more potentially dangerous when something is breaking. >> and even during the cold war, when we were covering the cold war, there were communications at the worst moments. >> right. >> on the hotline. >> think about over syria right now. the u.s. talks to russia on a deconfliction line so they can make sure their aircraft is not ...

Maybe on the coastal regions far from that. let's get the reading now from the pentagon and jennifer griffin who is there. jennifer? >> vladimir putin's strategy is clear to those that have been watching it. he intends to take the entire country. his forces are coming in from three different axis and they're going to strangle these cities. we learned from a senior u.s. defense official that the department of defense established a deconfliction line with the russian ministry of defense march 1. he said "for the purposes of preventing miscalculation and military incidents and escalation." we lea...

But again, we need to be clear about this. if nato countries are supplying new crane, does that give vladimir putin the opportunity, or the excuse to start targeting nato? that is why the u.s., for example, has this deconfliction line set up with the kremlin to avoid this kind of confrontation. >> nbc correspondent cal, live from lviv. thank you for being with us. now the u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, what is the decision to strike near this facility tell you about you about vladimir putin's intentions at this point? >> well, first of all, i don't know if it was intentionally in f...