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This is part of ongoing psychological war by the ukrainians against russians. the other day i was near the russian front lines, i have a ukrainian phone and i received on it a text from the ukrainian authorities saying soldier of the russian federation, you are fulfilling a criminal order, you will die. surrender to captivity, you will return home safely. now as far as action going on on the ground here in ukraine, the city of odesa has recently come under repeated drone odesa is fairly far from the front line. in one case several drones hit a civil administration building in the middle of the...

Novorussia, new russia. katherine the great basically pulled that in for the empire, including odesa, in the 1700s. and that's what you're reading now. and they are pushing their way through there. i was in moscow in 2014, and we all worried that they were going to push on mariupol then when they initially took crimea and parts of the donbas. they didn't. but here it comes, and again, yes, it's been horrendous, but the unexpected ukrainian resistance has, again, messed their plans up, and then of course odesa, the pearl of the black sea. you saw those guys on the beach, if you will, the sandba...

Soldiers, including a 30, probably, percent of draftees that don't want to be there and can't believe they've been put into this situation. and the fact that they've been lied to. in the east, coming in is the town of kharkiv. million and a half. fought, battled over this second world war, the nazis and the soviets, taken and retaken. this is an historical place as well. the russians have been pushed around it, tentatively. they just lost a general there. their third general died in ukraine in the last two weeks. and so, kharkiv, right on the russian border, just a few hours, still holds. and ...

Go away. just do anything with your russia. everything you want. but never come again ukraine. we hate you, and all the politics. we don't need your support. >> reporter: and then, a reminder of the dangers here. so, while we were in here about to do an interview with the air raid sirens have gone off so everyone's been asked to go down into the shelter so they're leaving this area now. a guy grabs a guitar and begins to play. ♪♪ >> reporter: no one here knows what's going to happen next. nick martin, sky news, odesa. >> our thanks to nick martin for bringing us that report from odesa. wit...