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You have traveled so widely in ukraine over the last month owe sore, i'll let you speak in a moment, particularly about odesa and the reports we saw of attacks on the facilities. >> good morning. >> reporter: that is not a surprise. we were in odesa last week and it has been on putin's wish list. you heard president zelenskyy warning about it in first weeks of the war. we went and talked to the navy there, the civilians, we estimated about half of the city has left. the other half of the city is digging in and ready to fight. the entire city looks different from lviv, sandbag, military blockad...

Community of nations. >> yeah, we can sit here and have a serious conversation about what, if any, prospects there were for a negotiated outcome before the events of the last few days. that space has dramatically shrunk. >> it is much smaller. >> let's talk about it more. we have to figure out how the war ends. >> we will be talking to a president of lithuania, a nato member, and the first country of the european union to completely cut off russian gas imports. as you saw richard haass is here, the president on the council on foreign lagss. host and executive producer of "the circus" on show t...

Show, it is now in the top five. >> this is going to be an interesting segue. >> yeah, i know. >> in piggy blinders. >> i know. i like it. >> i like how he tried to get the segue before you had a chance to opine, joe. >> we have a lot to talk about. why don't we begin. >> we sure did. top headlines, horrific images are emerging of what russian forces left behind after pulling back from the ukrainian capital of kyiv. we want to warn you the images are disturbing and graphic but it is what is happening now. the pictures and videos are from the town of bucha northwest of the capital. they show wi...

Almost have, odesa, see, aren't they really in the same position where they can destroy a lot of buildings, they can commit war crimes, but, my god, the second they try to set up shop in any of these cities seems to me the ukrainians are going to start pushing back just like they have time and again. >> that's right, joe. the ukrainians will be able to reconstitute. you know, some of the missile strikes we were talking about there, odesa down here in the southwest, critical city. why? well, that's where oil, that's where grain, that's the future of the economy of ukraine. separately, what we'v...

Night to a really, really good south carolina team. >> wow. that very impressive. by the way, my dad used to drive us across country a lot and we drove through manhattan, kansas. >> okay. so you -- >> got stuck in -- >> you've been there. good. coming up, we will get back to the war in ukraine and the nato base in romania playing a major role in providing reinforcements. plus, a political moment from a big night. the ukrainian president delivers a surprise message. we will be back here with continuing coverage on "morning joe."