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Yasmin, said russia was capable of using 12 ships here. each ships holding five battalions of about 400 military personnel. all being able to attack odessa. and the week ukrainian naval armada, very minimal. the russian artillery and air attacks, they can also weaken odessa as they attack. then there is the 1500 russian troops that could come from moldova and create a second front there in odessa. this is where might help out the ukrainian forces. this is because there are some natural areas that are protected. with the russian military progress in the south, the question is, does, and what do...

He will be able to cut off ukraine from the sea. it is a critical seaport, and it is the beaches that are now being fortified, by civilians, to protect themselves from the night of the russian army. just have a look at this, in the summer there is sunbathing in front on these beaches. today, they're digging and digging filling saddened bag after sandbag to try to protect these beaches. they figured it out there in the black sea, there is a buildup of russian military and navy, that have plans to try and mount some amphibious assault on the beaches of odessa. and then dozens are not going to ha...

>> nick martin, thank you. from port cities like odessa to the capital in kyiv, ukrainian civilians are defending their homeland. with us tonight, sergiy stakhovsky, he's the professional ukrainian tennis player who famously beat roger federer at wimbledon, now he's in kyiv preparing to defend his country. i'm so glad you're with us, tonight, how surreal is all of this? your birthplace is now a war zone, and you are one of the people defending it. >> well, i never imagined in my life that it would come to this. but i would have to be in ukraine, in kyiv, wearing a bulletproof vest, and an assa...

Russians plan to attack odessa just in the next few days. if he's right, then this might, just might be able to stave that off. but it's hard to see how that can be possible. just look at this effort, a human chain, look at the weather, it's absolutely freezing cold. and yet, they're still putting in sound bags on the back of these lorries and moving those to wherever they feel they can be beneficial. but it just makes you wonder, just of how effective they will be against the might of the russian military, who have seen really dead set on taking odessa. it really was the sort of jewel and the...