CNN CNN Tonight March 22, 2022 01:11:00
If you go to the west, you see odesa. it's always been putin's desire to have the black sea and the sea of azov a port. mariupol is important for two reasons, laura. first of all, going to the east and connecting with the donbas. but if you go north of mariupol, there's another russian city called ca called dnipro. you can encircle the donbas region where the russians believe most of the ukrainian army was because they've been fighting there for the last six years. that's called a battle of annihilation when you have two sides coming from different directions and encircling the enemy force. yo...
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