and would it be general walters who would be sort of in charge on the other end of the phone? can you give us a sense of who what this link is. and then just second do you want the phone number too. if you could put the phone here, it would be good. and then just anything new on odesa. on the deconfliction, i don t have any information about whether it has been used. it is only been in place for a couple of days. i think since early this week. it is basically say phone line, a phone connection to the russian ministry of defense. it is being administered out of european command headquarters and as i understand it, it s basically staffed by, you know, staff level officers there at european command that have no expectation that unless he really desires, that general
who often visited his father in texas, is a well-known pastor in melitopol, the same southern ukrainian city where the mayor was kidnapped earlier this month and later released as part of a prisoner swap. we spoke with bodyu s wife helen over a spotty phone connection she says she was in the house when eight to ten armed russian soldiers came in. well, they just came in, took our phones, gadgets and took him somewhere i don t know where reporter: his daughter has not heard from him since saturday. we are praying for him, and we re praying that he is strong. reporter: her mother told her the russians asked if her father was american. they just took him without against his will reporter: the day after the invasion bodyu had invited ukrainians to seek shelter at his church. russia says that they are not targeting civilians. this pastor is a civilian reporter: nari dwarta is a humanitarian aid worker in ukraine frantically trying to find bodyu. it is hard, but somewhere