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Ukraine. but as weve seen, ukrainians have really stood up and fought exceptionally well and have really beaten the russians. and the final thing one of your reporters talked about, a possible amphibious landing around odesa. but those land rgings are incredibly complex, they take an enormous amount of planning and just are really hard to do. and if the russian ground troops are any indication, its really hard to see how russia could pull off something like this. they havent been able to pull of...

Why it is, what is so appealing to a port city like odesa for russia? why is it targeting or perhaps even using that space to launch its weaponry? >> russia has wanted a warm water port like odesa for literally centuries. and it is crucial to this war, to ukraine, and to the future. you saw that some of the attacks on ukraine have been launched from russian ships. the cruise missiles, things like that. and if they were able to capture odesa, it would be -- it wouldnt be anywhere close to the end...

Sometimes a little hard to describe. its like this surreal kind of experience. they know, you know, last night there was a missile strike, for about a minute you hear this barrage of air defense systems blasting into the sky, so its a serious reminder that this is a country at war. but during the daylight hours in a place like odesa and driven through about half of the country now, you see people out and about doing what they want do. i spoke with one group of people saying kind of continuing to...

As the pentagon said, theyre doing this in real time. theyre looking at what the ukrainians need and can use immediately. and one of the things that has been pretty amazing about this is just how fast this weaponry and these supplies have got on the ukraine. the pentagon is often accused and sometimes rightfully so for being slow. they have been anything but slow here. these weapons, once theyre announced, they get to the ukraine very, very fast. >> oftentimes an entry point for u.s. military as...

Three missiles launched from the c crimean peninsula in that direction. we dont know many details, but we understand according to one military official that there were some casualties, the extent of the injuries we dont know, and another military official saying that the russian forces did not hit their intended target. thats whats happening in o odesa. in other parts of the country, a couple headlines, there was an oil refinery in the center of the country struck by russian forces last night as...

It will create many political problems on israel themselves. >> the background, some sort of bombing or rockets. >> do you think if the russian repeats that in odesa that you see some kind of valley. >> israeli involvement would not be truth of course. it could be the use of attempt of israelis specials here of the secret service. >> it could change. there is been a course about this and cnn on your network. >> of course it is possible but there will be enormous price to pay. will it make any se...

Area. it is true. >> so, you touched on this. the preparations there in odesa. >> you said it is a million people. any idea when they can hold a rush army for? >> they just started this week, they can hold out in definitely. >> it is well fortified and for a long time. there is also another question. which was a majority of the city until 1941. many people will tell you, even though their names have been changed, they have deep ties to israel or identify part any jewish. >> this creates a great ...

400 million people. anyone who would step into here will face severely difficult heat, i would think. >> how much is the fate of o odesa? russian forces continue to face problems. >> i dont think that of course thats theoretically possible. there is no question that the fact that mariupol, at least half of it in russians hands is nothing more than impossible. >> it has been bogged down russian forces and forcing them to deliver resuources to that

The war rages around you but for the most part the city has been spared, is this a sign that the russian military has its sight on odesa. >> so thats really nothing new. the larger problem is that we actually are 60 kilometers at the front line here. yesterday was the first time of russians forces high caliber rockets. this is the biggest port in ukraine by far. the fact that it is extremely well defended. their catacombs and dtunnels. if you had cities on a hill with