destroy the incoming cruise missiles. sometimes they re successful, you ll see these huge explosions in the sky. the glow lighting up the black sky. sometimes like here the missiles land. certainly a terrifying experience. last night we saw families running into the shelters. this was the middle of the night around 2:00 a.m. it s not brief. it lasts for a long time. at the end of these at the end of these nights, at the end of these attacks, there is an all clear that is given by the ukrainian authorities. thankfully there are some very good detection, early detection warning systems put in place, so we do have some sense of what is coming and people do have to some extent some time to get into shelters, but obviously it is not a perfect system, and obviously russia is using incredibly sophisticated weaponry to target odesa and other cities. nearly 600 days into the war, it s still completely jarring to see the destruction behind you, alex marquardt live in odesa,
from the black sea grain deal, they are now burning the grain too in attacks he calls ba barbaric. russia launched 38 air attacks hitting the port city of mykolaiv striking a three-story residential building. at least 19 people were wounded including several children. cnn s alex marquardt is live with us in odesa. alex, lots of destruction behind you. what are you seeing there? reporter: enormous destruction. this city has never seen anything like this since the gin beginning of this war. i can t overstate the terror the citizens of this city have had to experience over not one but the last three nights. it is no mistake that odesa is home to ukraine s most famous port. i want to show you some of the destruction from last night. this is an administrative building. it looks like it was around four stories high. you can see it has completely collapsed. we are told this is still a
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i want to play you some of the video shot of one of the explosions in odesa here last night. take a listen. that is the kind of thing we heard for an hour and a half. it was not just odesa hit. it was also mykoliyav. this was a sophisticated attack. almost 40 drones and missiles. most of the missiles got through. russia used long-range super sonic bombers, four cruise missiles, the iranian ckamikaze drones. just the symbol of what they used sends a message to ukraine. president zelenskyy has said it s russia trying to target the
we are told this is still a search and rescue operation. we know at least one young man was killed. there were several people injured. you can see the firefighters trying to put out the fires in this building, both from among the rubble and up on the ladder up there. there are firefighters, rescue workers, there are volunteers and residents of this neighborhood who are just trying to make sense of what we experienced last night. we are on the edge of the port. the biggest port in ukraine, which we can t show you for security reasons. but that is almost certainly why, according to ukrainian authorities russia has been carrying out these strikes on ukraine. this attack started just before 2:00 a.m. local time. it was a combination of drones and missiles. we could hear the drones clearly buzzing the roof tops in downtown odesa. i want to play you some of the sorry we re going to get out of the way of this water.