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General, the author of "swimming the vulga." general, great to see you in person. odesa. the russians keep on hitting it from the air. what are they after? >> odesa, i believe, for the russians is aspirational. they want it but i don't believe that they have the force, structure or logistics to get out here. from crimea to odesa is about 125 miles and kharsin a little bit less than that. the russians are spread out all along here. they're powerful. so while they focus on donbas and got this abscess in mariupol, epic mariupol, they also want to, if you will, greater russian empire, soviet

Intense russian bombing in recent days and weeks. food, medicine and time running out. not much left of what used to be a sprawling industrial complex. we have experts from inside to see how much of it flattened be beyond recognition with the russians. >> in the southern city of odesa, reports of multiple explosions in the last 24 hours in and around the airport. the runway has been damaged. and this a propaganda video, this is released by the russian ministry of defense showing cruise missile attacks being launched from russian subs into ukraine from the black sea. the ukrainians mind you hav...

Spend, a little less. the signal is powerful. the west has spent the same that russia spends in the entire out lay for a year. and this is just the beginning. the u.s. could easily out resource out spend, out support ukraine and that's a signal that the ruckss arssians are spendin shifting tone. eventually the russians will figure out pressure doesn't get them out of this. it will be some sort of other face saving measure, maybe rhetorical win the russians destroyed large amounts of ukrainian cities, depopulating ukraine, that's what putin might end up with. this campaign is not going well. th...

Military. >> he really brings up the third party there because the option according to the soldiers of surrendering to the russians simply is not an option. they believe they were to do so, they would be executed, john, and i should add that a number of the civilians inside the steel plant complex are family members of fighters so they don't trust the russians, either. they believe they, too, would be killed. >> complicated emotions i think for so many of the people inside that plant. matt rivers, thank you. we have more on those strikes in odessa, joining us is a journalist inside the city....

Union. get to 0 decembsz odesa. you have the black sea fleet that is quiet except for the kilo submarines firing missiles i believe is harassment more than anything else and you mentioned before, they are showing the world and their own people they got there. so odesa is possible but it is a long stretch if they go for it in a major way, then you may get a situation, john, like you had in northern -- if you will, northern ukraine near kyiv where they're extended and ukrainians start to slip behind. remember, this red doesn't mean the russian troops are in there. they are mostly partisans and t...