nick joins us now from odesa. hello there to you, nick, talking to us from the beautiful cultural city of odesa, which is also of key strategic importance, isn t it? reporter: it is. you have to think of odesa like doba. it is a huge port in ordinary times trade comes in and out of here. it is economically very important and now, of course, in this new context of war, it is militarily important. there is some fighting about 100 kilometers east of here in mykolaiv, another key port. so it is clear and it always has been clear that vladimir putin holds places like this as a key target. if you can secure odesa, he would be successful in cutting off ukraine from the sea and