of target you would use for cluster munitions. everybody agrees there s a shortage of artillery ammunition. no matter what kind of artillery ammunition is sent to ukraine, whether the standard ammunition or cluster munitions, that will certainly help in this artillery fight during this counteroffensive. alex marquardt in odesa for us, stay safe. i m joined by two guests to discuss all these late-breaking developments in ukraine. cnn military analyst, retired general leslie clark and william taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. ambassador taylor, odesa are being brutally destroyed right now. how much are ukrainians bracing for i assume they anticipate this is about to get even worse. this is about to get worse, wolf, you re exactly right. i m sure there are efforts to
ten of these loud impacts all around us. now, we are in downtown odesa. this is one of the biggest cities, one of the most important cities in the country. we re not too far from that critical port. what impact or, rather, what effect these missiles have had on this city at this point, that certainly remains to be seen. we re keeping our eyes glued on the sky, because what we ve been seeing are these tracer rounds, these red tracers going up by the hundreds to take down these drones that start up at any moment without any notice. you can hear, erin, you ve just been in ukraine, that there is no air raid siren. the air raid sirens have been notably absent tonight. but we have seen spotlights in the sky. we assume that those are ukrainian forces looking for those drones, trying to shoot them down, just extraordinary scenes. i ve really never seen anything like it in years of covering conflict. erin, the kremlin had already said earlier today that this was
just at a moment s notice. it s an extremely fluid situation. all right, alex, thank you very much. we re glad that you are safe. thank you for sharing all this with us. alex live from odesa tonight. we ll continue to monitor that in these early hours of the morning. it s about 2:39 in the morning where alex is right now. next, meantime, ron desantis defending his campaign. he s been obviously struggling to gain traction. the republican governor chris sununu whose endorsement desantis needs badly, is outfront next. and all eyes are on florida this hour. a federal judge there could decide at any time when trump will go on trial for the classified documents case. as i said, that could happen any moment, and congressman jamie raskin, a member of the january 6th committee, will join me. it not only cleans, it h hydrates my skin. as a dermatologistst, i want what s best for our skin. with 1/4 moisturizing cream, dove is the #1 bar dermatologists use at home. oh, booking.com
sounds of impact so loud that it has set off car alarms all around town. it s very difficult to say where those impacts were, how far away from us. but certainly enough to shake the building that we re in and cause the cars around us to have their alarms go off. so, alex, what is the sense of how much this escalates from here? obviously, you re in odesa, current home of the ukrainian navy, such that there still is. crimea off in the distance. it s a crucial location, as you point out. is there a feeling that you are seeing sort of the actual event, or the prelude to the actual event? reporter: well, this probably is the actual event. this is essentially the extent of what russia can throw at a city like odesa without significant escalation. of course there s a lot farther that russia can go. but this is what they ve been doing, a combination of missile
or in fact the end of what might be a very loud and violent night here in odesa. of course, it s just past 2:00 in the morning. what we ve heard is a significant barrage of drones and missiles attempting to strike this city. we have seen just these extraordinary scenes of ukrainian air defense trying to fend off what we imagine are these iranian-made drones. these are the drones that russia tries to send at odesa and other ukrainian cities on an almost daily basis. but also these huge caliber cruise missiles that have been fired at this city now for two nights in a row from the black sea. these are enormous missiles that at least last night ukraine said that they had intercepted. but last night we heard some impacts tonight, erin, a lot more impacts. this has been a much busier, much louder night than last night. we did hear i would say six to