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Were traveling on the russian controlled parts. the only chance law [inaudible] at the very end of their flight, which is like right over the city of odessa. despite there were only two out of six [inaudible] anne -- not bad results. we do have law, like, situations -- but thats our job to do. [inaudible] pretty possible to be shut down by the fighter jet. but actually our fighter drones in this case are doing much better. >> so this comes into the

That russia is making in the south. >> thats a good point. as we watch this it turning more and more red. if you zoom in to these little yellow lines, these are rivers. these are estuaries. these are tributaries. they protect odessa from the military forces that are coming from the east. they are natural, would they call kill zones. these kill zones or spaces where ukrainian forces have good defenses from these forces. in addition to widowed the second do, what ukrainian forces can do, is they c...

Those look more routine day-by-day. >> it looks more routine day-by-day despite the fact that you are in the midst of a war. talk to me about odessa, as we just heard from my colleague richard louis. it seems as if the russians are focusing on the fort city of odessa. your air defense system has intercepted two missiles. are those the type of missiles that you, as a fighter pilot, you can intercept and i how targeted is your response to that type of missile? >> to begin with, those are not the f...

Coming from here. not this far. this is uncommon. is there a reason why given the current russian military power on the black sea right now? again, this is where they normally launch. there are missiles. more for you at the moment, according to ukraines southern air defense forces, it fired six missiles from this location, traveling back 1000 miles. ukrainian air defense taking down two of them along the way, but to successfully hitting one military target and two striking this presidential buil...

Ukraine where the port city of odessa is coming into focus is a key russian prize. richard, walk us through this. when you see? >> comments coming from military leaders that are focusing on odessa and the west. odessa would be quite a win for russia. it handles about 15% of the trade that comes out of ukraine, according to its -- not to mention the new potential trade for military lanes through to the south. this is just a sense of what was happening over the last 24 hours. russian missiles stri...

Yasmin, said russia was capable of using 12 ships here. each ships holding five battalions of about 400 military personnel. all being able to attack odessa. and the week ukrainian naval armada, very minimal. the russian artillery and air attacks, they can also weaken odessa as they attack. then there is the 1500 russian troops that could come from moldova and create a second front there in odessa. this is where might help out the ukrainian forces. this is because there are some natural areas tha...

He will be able to cut off ukraine from the sea. it is a critical seaport, and it is the beaches that are now being fortified, by civilians, to protect themselves from the night of the russian army. just have a look at this, in the summer there is sunbathing in front on these beaches. today, theyre digging and digging filling saddened bag after sandbag to try to protect these beaches. they figured it out there in the black sea, there is a buildup of russian military and navy, that have plans to ...

>> nick martin, thank you. from port cities like odessa to the capital in kyiv, ukrainian civilians are defending their homeland. with us tonight, sergiy stakhovsky, hes the professional ukrainian tennis player who famously beat roger federer at wimbledon, now hes in kyiv preparing to defend his country. im so glad youre with us, tonight, how surreal is all of this? your birthplace is now a war zone, and you are one of the people defending it. >> well, i never imagined in my life that it would c...

Russians plan to attack odessa just in the next few days. if hes right, then this might, just might be able to stave that off. but its hard to see how that can be possible. just look at this effort, a human chain, look at the weather, its absolutely freezing cold. and yet, theyre still putting in sound bags on the back of these lorries and moving those to wherever they feel they can be beneficial. but it just makes you wonder, just of how effective they will be against the might of the russian m...