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Ukraine. but as we've seen, ukrainians have really stood up and fought exceptionally well and have really beaten the russians. and the final thing one of your reporters talked about, a possible amphibious landing around odesa. but those land rgings are incredibly complex, they take an enormous amount of planning and just are really hard to do. and if the russian ground troops are any indication, it's really hard to see how russia could pull off something like this. they haven't been able to pull off a pretty straightforward surface attack, much less a complicated sea-to-shore amphibious attack...

Why it is, what is so appealing to a port city like odesa for russia? why is it targeting or perhaps even using that space to launch its weaponry? >> russia has wanted a warm water port like odesa for literally centuries. and it is crucial to this war, to ukraine, and to the future. you saw that some of the attacks on ukraine have been launched from russian ships. the cruise missiles, things like that. and if they were able to capture odesa, it would be -- it wouldn't be anywhere close to the end, but it would be a pretty big blow. odesa represents the ukrainian outlet to the sea, and it repre...

Sometimes a little hard to describe. it's like this surreal kind of experience. they know, you know, last night there was a missile strike, for about a minute you hear this barrage of air defense systems blasting into the sky, so it's a serious reminder that this is a country at war. but during the daylight hours in a place like odesa and driven through about half of the country now, you see people out and about doing what they want do. i spoke with one group of people saying kind of continuing to carry on, going about your daily life. that is almost like an act of defiance. it's not uncommon ...

As the pentagon said, they're doing this in real time. they're looking at what the ukrainians need and can use immediately. and one of the things that has been pretty amazing about this is just how fast this weaponry and these supplies have got on the ukraine. the pentagon is often accused and sometimes rightfully so for being slow. they have been anything but slow here. these weapons, once they're announced, they get to the ukraine very, very fast. >> oftentimes an entry point for u.s. military assistance, arsenal assistance, will be, you know, by way of sea. in this case, as we have been abl...

Three missiles launched from the c crimean peninsula in that direction. we don't know many details, but we understand according to one military official that there were some casualties, the extent of the injuries we don't know, and another military official saying that the russian forces did not hit their intended target. that's what's happening in o odesa. in other parts of the country, a couple headlines, there was an oil refinery in the center of the country struck by russian forces last night as well. that's significant. it continues to follow the path that russian forces have been carryin...