infrastructure has been hit. with this roughly indiscriminate attacks. they keep pushing back and. frustration is voiced with the kind of rocket fire we re hearing in the distance. why are these coastal cities so strategic in this fight? yeah. two answers tom, really of the possibly as a cultural goal, if vladimir putin really thinks he can occupy ukraine. he can t do it without o deododesa. on the black sea coast where so many russians have been on vacation for decades. that s an integral part of any plan, warped as it may be. the black sea coast is economically utterly vital and i m on the second port city, mykolaiv. it is intensifying, rather than
ebbing. mick the bombardment has been phenomenal but we are seeing now, a bit by russia to move to the north of the city. i was told that essentially, they ve recognized by ukraine military, they can t take the bridges here without them being blown and the river is too wide. instead, they re moving to the north where they can make their own bridge and then head around the city and encircle and it then focus their effort toward odesa. that s an enormous task with the kind of resources russia has put here. their ambition has already outstretched their ability. and mykolaiv is bearing the brunnel of that with the russian military around the city with the military fire but also by these attempts, it seem, to get into the city and wreak havoc on
of the democratic party because it is quite unpopular. what did you think about that, mayor bottom. s it is not just people in the city effected but people in the surrounding area and it was a lot of voters in the suburbs of places like philadelphia, atlanta, and elsewhere, that delivered the presidency to joe biden. well, what i will remind people specifically in georgia is that the governor of georgia is the chief law enforcement officer of our state per our state constitution. but also when you look at policies, when you look at some of the decriminalization efforts, they centered on nonviolent offenders, nonviolent crimes. people, leaders in cities and states across america, are still very focused on addressing violent crime. but again, you have to look at it as a whole. it is the reason in atlanta specifically that we took money
rockets. quite a distance away from where i m standing on the other side of the river that splits this city and makes it quite strategic. we ve seen throughout the day, a city awash with ambulances whizzing around doing their business and yet a horrifying rocket attack that hit outside a busy supermarket. people standing there, simply cueing for food with the rare opportunities to get hold of it. nine killed in that instance and shop windows blown out. i met the recently created window from that attack at a nearby hospital and she talked about how she and her husband had been there getting supplies for the fiuneral of their daughter. and she horrifyingly described how she had seen her husband s face heavily injured and the blood was still there nearby where we stood ourselves. this is essentially part of a daily routine for people in mykolaiv now. and it is daily where the
alexander is returning to mykolaiv. russians have hammered the city. and you are willing to die for ukraine. we all die, he says. then adds, i m afraid to die but i m not a coward. this person from odesa along with her daughter, their dog and two cats. she said they left because of what they heard was happening in places already controlled by the russians. i ve heard about the violence, she says, and killings of peaceful people without any reason. she added, i had to leave. i was too stressed about it happening to me and my daughter. reporter: look, the romanian government says the number of refugees in recent days has come down in ukraine. but they are very concerned about the displaced.