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Koel le colleagues the better just on a human level. in terms of the technical stuff, there are people in kyiv who thought that, first of all, you shouldnt have those kinds of one-on-ones with putin after this, certainly not on his territory. and if you are going to do it, at least go see the president of ukraine first before you go to moscow. so there are people here in ukraine who are concerned about the sequencing of the way things are going. and they are thinking that you shouldnt be giving ...

On the 15th. ive been here in high hometown reporting here and around the region for the last ten days. im going out to dnipro tomorrow. but on the 15th when we arrived, it became obvious that with the sinking of the black sea fleet flagship, that the danger to odesa from an amphibious naval landing had become grdrasticall less of an issue. it was obvious that the fleet had to pull away 80, 100 miles away from the coast because their ships were in danger. so around about a week ago, local author...

The u.n. secretary-general is about to meet with vladimir putin in moscow. he will see volodymyr zelenskyy in kyiv on thursday. and lets bring in atlantic council fellow and author of the book "from odesa with love." and he is joining me live from odesa. so nice to have you. talk to me about your thoughts on this meeting. is there any point here, any hope in getting through to putin? >> thank you for having me back. look, im very happy for any kind of negotiation to take place. the sooner the ru...

More useful in the east in kherson and mykolaiv. so they started out moving out all the sandbags and barbed wire out east. and a couple days afterwards, it became obvious when they hit odesa with missiles and killed that beautiful family, three generations and including five others and wounded 18, that odesa was now the local of the war. and the air sirens went right as i came on your show. so there is this weird confluence of the beautiful weather here and the fact that this is one of the prett...