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The Taking of Christ, by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was stolen in Odesa and… - Jan. 18, 2022. By Ugo Poletti

What Odesa Really Means For Ukraine’s Future As temperatures rise, and as Odesa’s plucky residents remerge after the long winter on foot and scooter, there’s no sign that this legendary city is at all discountenanced by the recent hostilities. Lt. General Ben Hodges, a veteran Ukraine watcher, recently observed that the Russians covet three cities along Ukraine’s Black and Azov Seas, including Odesa, and a water canal north of Crimea. The canal scenario strikes most Ukraine experts as plausible and the conflict over the waterway was recently written up in the New York Times. But Ode...