this is a military facility that s been used for decades, dating back to the 1970s soviet era. but all of these attacks kind of coming ahead of what is a rather strikingly different approach to the curfew here in this city, starting at 9:00 local time, there will be a full-on curfew in place, even during daylight hours until monday morning and this coincides with april 10th which is a major city holiday here in odesa, the odesa liberation day, when the city celebrates its liberation from the nazis. but officials are saying that the curfew is connected to the strike at the train station where you had so many civilians gathered and in light of that, that s why they wanted to implement this 36-hour curfew in the city. and what about in kharkiv, where officials are bracing for this increased russian onslaught? right.
including the town s mayor. ed lavandera is in odesa covering the latest. a curfew takes effect in a few hours. tell us more about the aftereffects of so much devastation throughout so much of that country. reporter: right. this city in particular dealing with the aftereffects of about a day and a half of different attacks and also dealing with the effects of the attacks in other parts of the country. so here in a few hours starting at 9:00 local time, there will be a curfew city-wide, region-wide in place until monday morning. now, this coincides with april 10th, which is a significant city holiday here. it s noknown as liberation day. many people will leave flowers for the unknown soldier here and it celebrates the liberation of the natd sis. but because of that, the usual
around it is locked down from 9:00 tonight local time, which is about three hoursing auto, until 6:00 a.m. monday morning. and officially military officials are saying that this is due in large part because of the attack in the train station there in eastern ukraine. concern that the missile strikes could happen here as well. there is something else going on as well. tomorrow is a special city holiday, odesa s liberation day where they celebrate the liberation from the nazis back during world war ii. it is a day many people would come out and lay flowers at memorials and gather in public spaces. we learned late tonight that there was new information about an explosion that happened here in the city that is being investigated as an act of sabotage. so, you know, how all of this is mixing together and playing together, you know, you can kind of sense the heightened tensions that exist around here where you have public gatherings of people and you see what happened there
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