>> translator: they are preparing to bomb odessa. russian people always used to come to odessa and they only knew warmth and generosity. and what's now actually bombs against odessa. this will be a war crime. this will be historical crime. >> let's get to cnn's nick payton walsh who joins us from odessa. nick, give us a sense of what you're seeing on the ground and odessa, it's a vital port? >> reporter: yeah, we have been hearing for days of the possibility of maybe an amphibious or naval a salt against this third largest city in ukraine. it's maritime to the outside world. you can't control ukraine if you don't have odessa as part of that. but so far throughout the night and this morning with horizontal snow a moment ago, it has been quiet. not the case, though, from where you just saw the report. at 5:00 this morning, a number