Dangerous elements that russians leave behind, even in the areas where they ve been pushed back or they ve withdrawn, this is a huge danger to civilians. and the miners i spent time with, you know, it s a morning-to-night kind of ordeal, where they re constantly fielding phone calls with addresses. whether it s people or train stations where they have to go and try to find the unexploded ordnance, detonate it, clear it, and move on to the next one. this is something that will match much longer than the war will. isobel, thank you so much for being with us this morning from odesa. very much appreciate it. thank you. and a programming note, chef jose andres will join andrea mitchell to talk about the attack on his restaurant facilities in ukraine. he s doing critical work feeding the victims of the war. that s today noon, 9:00 a.m. pacific, right on msnbc. there are new concerns
The weather has been good. but, you know, there is always a tension. you see in lviv today in the west, there were missile strikes there. those same missile strikes at any time could come to odesa. no city is really safe from any of that. isobel, i know you have been covering the efforts by ukrainian officials, clearing unexploded bombs that are, you know, the russian forces are leaving behind. what are they seeing? yeah, there s a ton of them. you know, throughout my reporting, i ve met so many people who have kind of unexploded ordinances in their backyards, in their gardens, at the zoo in mykolaiv, and that s not including land mines where we don t know where they are, especially around kyiv where russian forces have been occupying some of those areas. it s going to be a really, really long effort and it shows kind of the destructive,