ten days. those people kind of looked at them, and the russian soldiers and said, we have no people like that here. we don t know what you re talking about. and their impression was that, those soldiers have been kind of almost brainwashed by this kremlin false propaganda that s been used to justify this unprovoked war. the russian troops are trying to make their way west, along southern ukraine. mykolaiv has been a point at which they ve been stopped. they were planning to otherwise be in odessa, the beautiful port city of odessa. the biggest pour in the country on the black sea. you have spent a lot of time reporting on odessa. it s where your parents were born. tell us what it s like, would it was like to be there and how that port city is doing right now. everybody there is expecting that the worst is still yet to come. yeah, odessa is, for the
soldiers have been kind of almost brainwashed by this kremlin false propaganda that s been used to justify this unprovoked war. the russian troops are trying to make their way west, along southern ukraine. mykolaiv has been a point at which they ve been stopped. they were planning to otherwise be in odessa, the beautiful port city of odessa. the biggest pour in the country on the black sea. you have spent a lot of time reporting on odessa. it s where your parents were born. tell us what it s like, would it was like to be there and how that port city is doing right now. everybody there is expecting that the worst is still yet to come. yeah, odessa is, for the most part like there has returned to normal for normal-ish i guess as normal things can get in a war. there are, you know, still military checkpoints and a heavy military presence. but even the zoo is open nowadays.