putin critic calls on to call off dollars to moscow. every day europe germany france italy austria and various other places, who are totally dependent on russian gas, send vladimir putin a billion dollars every day. and so, just within really simple terms, vladimir putin is owed a billion dollars a day. and every day he gets a billion dollars from europe. let s get down to the latest reporting from ukraine and washington. nbc s kelly quality a joining us from odessa. mike from the white house. welcome you. both kelly, starting with you. how the people of odessa reacted to the recent missile attacks. we know that an apartment building has been struck. they are certainly much more on edge than they were a couple of days ago. there is not been a missile strike in the city for more than three weeks now. and that strike, three weeks
european countries were being stored. we cannot independently verify that. the ukrainians certainly are not verifying that. they say that two missiles struck the city yesterday. one in that apartment building, the other in some unspecified military location. but alex, certainly people here in odessa are rethinking whether or not they should stay, particularly, again after the public announcement just a couple of days ago from the russian defense ministry, but they were looking at capturing all of southern ukraine, including odessa. okay. thank you very, much appreciated. kelly from odessa for us. the breaking news at this hour, french president emmanuel macron has won reelection in the country s hotly contested presidential election. the associated press projected his win after polls closed just minutes ago. this gives emmanuel macron a second five year term, as the leader of france. let s go to our correspondents on the ground there.
we have cbc s kelly so who is with the macron campaign. where supporters have begun their celebrations. charlotte reed is at marie le pen s space. welcome to you both. karen, first to you. to the victor, let s get the reaction where you are. alex, good evening to you from paris. the party is just not stopping here. apparently i am standing in the victors camp. the exit polls have just been released. 58.2 for macron, verses for le pen. keep in, on these extra polls here in france are very reliable. they are taken from actual ballots, samples from how people actually voted. not just interviews of those passing votes. so, it is reliable. i can tell, you the music just started and we ve a lot of support, but that sun, underneath this, it is very different from five years ago when emmanuel macron was a challenger. he was a man with a vision. . i think it was a fairly