Downtown Odesa News Today

Destroy the incoming cruise missiles. sometimes theyre successful, youll see these huge explosions in the sky. the glow lighting up the black sky. sometimes like here the missiles land. certainly a terrifying experience. last night we saw families running into the shelters. this was the middle of the night around 2:00 a.m. its not brief. it lasts for a long time. at the end of these -- at the end of these nights, at the end of these attacks, there is an all clear that is given by the ukrainian a...

From the black sea grain deal, they are now burning the grain too in attacks he calls ba barbaric. russia launched 38 air attacks hitting the port city of mykolaiv striking a three-story residential building. at least 19 people were wounded including several children. cnns alex marquardt is live with us in odesa. alex, lots of destruction behind you. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: enormous destruction. this city has never seen anything like this since the gin beginning of this war. i ca...

2020. a third straight night of intense russian strikes on ukraines southern port of odesa, this as ukraine prepares to receive another billion dollar aid package from the u.s. more questions swirling around the mysterious case of an alabama woman who went missing and reappeared two days later. why people are talking about her internet searches she did just before she disappeared. this is cnn "news central." as soon as today, a federal grand jury in d.c. could hand down another indictment ...

I want to play you some of the video shot of one of the explosions in odesa here last night. take a listen. >> that is the kind of thing we heard for an hour and a half. it was not just odesa hit. it was also mykoliyav. this was a sophisticated attack. almost 40 drones and missiles. most of the missiles got through. russia used long-range super sonic bombers, four cruise missiles, the iranian ckamikaze drones. just the symbol of what they used sends a message to ukraine. president zelenskyy has ...

We are told this is still a search and rescue operation. we know at least one young man was killed. there were several people injured. you can see the firefighters trying to put out the fires in this building, both from among the rubble and up on the ladder up there. there are firefighters, rescue workers, there are volunteers and residents of this neighborhood who are just trying to make sense of what we experienced last night. we are on the edge of the port. the biggest port in ukraine, which ...

Search and rescue operation. we know that at least one young man was killed. there were several people who were injured. you can see those firefighters trying to put out the fires in this building both from among the rubble and up on that ladder up there. there are firefighters. there are rescue workers. there are volunteers and residents of this neighborhood who are just trying to make sense of what we experienced last night. we are on the edge of the port, the biggest port in ukraine, which we...

Grain infrastructure after pulling out of the critical grain deal. >> alex marquardt in odesa, ukraine for us this morning. and this morning the belarussian troops said theyre learning with wagner fighters. imcots after the president invited wagner forces into his country to train his military and that was following a failed coup by yevgeny prigozhin. i want to talk about alexs piece and odesa in a moment but i want to talk about that were learning that belarusian forces are training with wagn...

Now. >> i think theres a lot of disappointed people. im not one of them. you know why? you said earlier this week if you won, you wouldnt be hanging out with me for the week. im just happy. >> its not personal. i just want to be on an island somewhere. >> its a little person but i like that energy. im with that. >> we do have a lot of news this morning. we are seeing the damage from the worst night of shelling and artillery fire in odesa, ukraine, since putins invasion began. russia launching an...

A russian strategy here. i think when we say that its all over, its lost and the administration seems to think it can coast into an easy end to this and then go to negotiations some time in the oughautumn, no necessarily so. as we always said in the military, the enemy has a vote. >> general clark, ambassador taylor, thanks to both of you. joining us now the ukrainian ambassador to the united states, oksana markov. odesa, mykaliev. 70 russian missiles and 90 iranian shaw head drones have hit s...

Worse? >> thank you, wolf, for having me and drawing attention to this. its very important, not only to ukraine, yes, its brutal war crimes. lets be very open. the only reason for this is not retaliation for something. the only reason is a criminal intent and the criminal war that russia started in 2014 and restarted in 2022. they have no business being on the territory in ukraine, occupying ukraine or shooting at ukraine. but with this current attacks on odesa, not only are they brutaling destr...