soviets were the ones defending the sports city. pictures from history here. they were outnumbered, the soviets, as much as 10 to 1 in the city. they are still at the moment, and at that time, they made the powers pay for their victory dearly. called the siege odessa. that s one of the old stories. it s with this is. it s told throughout all the country, and ukraine does not want to have to tell that story again. he richard louis, thank you. as always, we appreciate it. i want to bring in an ukrainian air force pilot who goes by simon fish in an effort to protect his identity. moon fish, thank you for joining us, we appreciate you re glad we re safe and appreciate that you are speaking with us today. you and your countrymen fighting alongside anne. what was it like before you head out on your missions in the sky? are you nervous when you go?
question with the type of technology that you as a fighter pilot has of access to. the weapons you have access to to keep the russians off and fight them back from the territory they ve now occupied in the east and south. because from what i understand and correct me if i m wrong, moonfish, you don t have the technology is a fire fighter pilot to release a missile without tracking it alongside the missile. if you wanted to drop a missile from your jet, you would have to fly into russian-controlled territory. that is one of the reasons why zelenskyy and so many other people are asking for a post soviet era fighter jets, so that you could fight the russians back. well, i would describe the reason for why president zelenskyy is asking for those fighter jets, it s to replace our losses that we already have been having. but to get russian jets as well
ukrainian fighter pilot moon fish is joining me to talk about the challenges ahead as russia s looking to take the control of southern and eastern ukraine. i want to start in the ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy says defensive lloyd austin and secretary of state antony blinken were forces to storm an area of mary opal, as many as 2000 civilians have been sheltered in a bombed out city. nbc s kyle curry is in the city of kyiv. kyle, talk me through it the white house not confirming this visit as of yet. you and i spoke yesterday, obviously is likely because of security reasons on the ground there, and then you have simultaneously the strikes continuing in the city of mariupol, talk us through all that s going on today? yeah, so we are where we are unfortunately 24 hours ago the something new to report on this potential visit. we ve heard from president zelenskyy saying that meeting will take place today, a little bit more background on this meeting though, we could tell you how this wor
further than ours. e over this past couple of weeks, we have learned, a couple of weeks, where we can counter that, but it is still a big thing. and i believe that the air force pilots it like a big win for our ground forces, the country, the democracy, we d be to kick those jets further away from our territory and from taking our cities as soon as possible. is it safe to say, moonfish, that you are on the defense
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