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Four adults and five children had been wounded, he added, without specifying their condition or if they had been in the residential building. He did not give details on the strike. Earlier, Ukraines air force had announced an air alert for Mykolaiv and other regions.

Russian drones and missiles have caused damage to industrial and port infrastructure at Ukraines southern coast; this followed Moscows refusal to extend an agreement allowing safe grain export from the region. Ukrainian air defences destroyed six Russian Kalibr missiles and 21 Iranian-built explosive drones. The Odesa region hosts key maritime terminals for grain export agreement between Moscow and Kyiv.

Huge, visible defeat, and just like the defeat of the rush arms around kyiv, and northern ukraine, it demonstrates their campaign is failing, but it also has strategic significance. the absence of anti-ship missiles in ukraine enable russian warships to take easily the city of berdosk in the city of oslov and pound the large port odesa in the black sea. it means future russian ships will not be able to operate close in a new offensive against odesa and thats very important. >> is max bout right ...

And bombers which the u.s. said no to. all of these things are essential when russia masses 100,000 troops with hundreds of tanks, hundreds of planes, hundreds of rocket launchers and massive artillery to try to take the city of kharkiv and odesa. we dont want zelenskyy to have to choose between saving his military and saving civilians from more aatrocities. >> is there a tipping point in your opinion based upon your experience and knowledge, which is deep of whats going on in russia, are we at ...

Surrounded by militia, tank traps, by defenses. it is practically to many people a matter of days until the russian army starts making ground. worrying time. zelenskyy, theyre trying to rally the world and his people to this cause but he is not being heard right now. not getting the things he really needs. >> harris: we got that. the whole world heard it. benjamin hall, thank you very much. excellent reporting as always. we just heard president zelenskyy of ukraine say that the whole world was l...

After they took crimea. odesa is it. thats their access to trade in the global economy through the black sea. when i was out there in december, the ukrainians were begging for harpoon anti-ship missiles to be able to defend their ports and be able to hold off these ships. the answer they continue to get including our own embassy out there from this white house is that would be too provocative. it would be too escalating. it is just shameful. if they had had those missiles. if they had had the st...