uglier still. a day of intermittent, not the worst news for ukrainian forces, you saw how the russian pr operation in kherson appeared to meet with hostile responses from the very people who were supposed to show we're on the side of the russian occupation. also the significant black city coast. a local official has said they've had a tunnel of success pushing russian troops out from that city center. now fighting is on the outskirts. there were fears it might fall at some point. here where odesa nerves are extremely fraught of what might occur, the notion of an amphibious landing, something that has been a daily threat for a week or. so people talk about it persistently. it could cause extraordinary loss. the city is barricading itself in. >> all right. thank you so much. our next guest was a u.s. air force pilot and now he's one of only two members of the