CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto March 3, 2022 14:04:00
Now, why is kherson so critical? because it is in the south, it is near odesa. so this is an indication that the russians may be trying to move to the west, toward odesa, which is that critical port city on the black sea. at the same time, we're also hearing that russian forces and pro russian separatist forces are trying to surround the other southern major city of mariupol, which is on the sea of azov. that, if they took that, that would help president putin create this land bridge that would connect crimea with western russia. so major moves by russia on ukraine's southern flank. jim? >> se...