2:00 a.m. local time. it was a combination of drones and missiles. we could hear those drones very clearly buzzing the rooftops in downtown odesa. i want to play you some of the video that sorry, we are going to get out of the way of this water. i want to play you some of the video shot by our photojournalist of one of the explosions of the missiles in odesa last night. take a listen. that is what we heard for an hour and a half. it was not just odesa that was hit. it was mykolaiv, another southern port city. 19 people were wounded. this was an incredibly sophisticated attack. almost 40 drones and missiles. most of the missiles got through. russia used long-range strategic bombers, supersonic bombers, four kinds you have classrooms,
ruins. our cnn team on the ground captured some of the strikes that happened in the dark of night. you can see them lighting up the night sky. the flashes part of the 38 air strikes, air attacks that the ukrainian air force counted and ukraine said they were able to intercept and take out 18 of them. russia attacks also rained down on mick lieia. alex marquardt is on the ground in odesa with a look at the damage. reporter: this city has never seen anything like this since the beginning of the war. i can t overstate the terror the citizens have over the last three nights. 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 begin this morning with the worst night in odesa since the start of the invasion. russia s third night of attacks on the city leaving at least one person and two others injured. officials urging people to stay in their shelters until the sirens end. ukraine s air force pleading for better defense systems after they downed only five of 19 russian classrooms. the eu s top diplomat calls this barbaric due to the large scale of destruction of food infrastructure. he says not only did russia withdraw from the black sea deal, they are burning the grain now, too. officials claim the previous two days of attacks destroyed 60,000 tons of grain, foods that millions in developing nations rely on. alex marquardt is there. reporter: this city has never seen anything like this since the beginning of the war. i can t overstate the terror that the citizens of this city have had to experience over not one, but the last three nights,
used those iranian kamikaze drones. the symbolism of what they used is sending a large message to ukraine. president zelenskyy said it is very clearly russia trying to target the grain infrastructure just a few days after russia pulled out of that critical grain deal. that s alex marquardt live on the ground in odesa, ukraine. also today a federal grand jury is set to meet as another potential indictment looms over donald trump. the panel in d.c. will be hearing more testimony from special counsel jack sth conditions witnesses as they prepare to decide if trump will face criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election. today is also the deadline for trump s lawyers to it he will jack smith if they want to offer witnesses, including trump himself. we are learning trump quietly hired another attorney to beef up his defense teams and sources telling cnn the former president s lawyers have been scrambling to find out if the special counsel has more
traveling long distances. ukraine has been pleading for better air defense systems. what do they need most at this point? one of the key things they need is what amounts to point-to-point defenses. and what that means is they need a bigger umbrella to cover places like odesa. the air defenses have focused on mainly on kyiv and then kharkiv, the second city in the north. but they need to protect odesa because the russian goal has been from the beginningov t beginning of this phase of the conflict has been to cut ukraine off from the black sea. and so they need systems that would allow them to do a better job of shooting down the missiles. alex in his report mentioned some of the limitations that they had and the fact they really didn t shoot down all of the missiles.