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Were traveling on the russian controlled parts. the only chance law [inaudible] at the very end of their flight, which is like right over the city of odessa. despite there were only two out of six [inaudible] anne -- not bad results. we do have law, like, situations -- but that's our job to do. [inaudible] pretty possible to be shut down by the fighter jet. but actually our fighter drones in this case are doing much better. >> so this comes into the

That russia is making in the south. >> that's a good point. as we watch this it turning more and more red. if you zoom in to these little yellow lines, these are rivers. these are estuaries. these are tributaries. they protect odessa from the military forces that are coming from the east. they are natural, would they call kill zones. these kill zones or spaces where ukrainian forces have good defenses from these forces. in addition to widowed the second do, what ukrainian forces can do, is they could put mines in the water that are surrounding the areas here, making it much more difficult for ...

Those look more routine day-by-day. >> it looks more routine day-by-day despite the fact that you are in the midst of a war. talk to me about odessa, as we just heard from my colleague richard louis. it seems as if the russians are focusing on the fort city of odessa. your air defense system has intercepted two missiles. are those the type of missiles that you, as a fighter pilot, you can intercept and i how targeted is your response to that type of missile? >> to begin with, those are not the first types that have been fired from the caspian sea into ukrainian territory. if you watch that map...

Coming from here. not this far. this is uncommon. is there a reason why given the current russian military power on the black sea right now? again, this is where they normally launch. there are missiles. more for you at the moment, according to ukraine's southern air defense forces, it fired six missiles from this location, traveling back 1000 miles. ukrainian air defense taking down two of them along the way, but to successfully hitting one military target and two striking this presidential building where nbc was at earlier over the weekend. president zelenskyy saying a three month old baby w...

Ukraine where the port city of odessa is coming into focus is a key russian prize. richard, walk us through this. when you see? >> comments coming from military leaders that are focusing on odessa and the west. odessa would be quite a win for russia. it handles about 15% of the trade that comes out of ukraine, according to its -- not to mention the new potential trade for military lanes through to the south. this is just a sense of what was happening over the last 24 hours. russian missiles striking the core of odessa, but you'll notice when they are coming from the caspian sea. about 1000 mil...