businessman and often frequented by some of russia s elites. there is another hotel, second one in a village south of odesa, outside the city, and it is in a little village there, that is very close to a bridge that has been struck a lot recently, jim. this is the only bridge, only rail or road connection between the far southwest part of ukraine and the rest of the country, not really clear whether that hotels with in fact the intended target or something else. here is what the mayor of odesa had to say about the most recent round of strikes. translator: regular peace process was taking place. the curfew saved us all. some people ask why do we need these excessive measures of precaution? we can see now that they are not excessive. many said there is no way they would dare to attack a hero city on the 9th of may. they dared to attack and they did conduct a sneaky and deadly attack on the 9th of may.
northeast. car seats and strollers litter the highway after russian troops attacked a civilian evacuation convoy, again. civilians as targets there. officials say a 13-year-old girl was among several whom the russian forces killed in that attack. we ll have much more from ukraine in just a moment. we re also following the dramatic deadly end to this 11-day manhunt. escaped alabama inmate casey white is in custody this morning. former corrections officer vicky white is dead after police chase ended in a crash in indiana. officials say vicky white died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. casey white is facing extradition to alabama for arraignment. we ll get you an update just ahead. we begin, though, this morning, in ukraine, cnn international correspondent scott mclean recording from lviv. scott, you know, odesa has been a big target in recent days. i heard from folks there about the danger they re facing. what do we know about the latest attack? reporter: the locations here,
jim, are all over the map. and it is really hard to understand what any of this strategic values of any of these places might actually be. there was a series of warehouses hit by one missile, potentially, that s some kind of strategic target. others are really truly a mystery. seven missiles according to the ukrainians hit a shopping mall, one of the biggest shopping malls in southern ukraine, in the northern part of odesa, this is the place where it looks like any other american mall, it has tons of international brands that were set to spend tens of millions of dollars expanding that mall. and so it is not really clear what the value was there. one person was killed, but it is remarkable there weren t more. the reason being is that it was actually closed at the time because of a government imposed curfew that started on sunday night and only lifted this morning. they were also two hotels hit, one of them was a seaside hotel, right on the beach in southern odesa, and it was owned by
forget to download the 5 things podcast every morning. $195 million. i mean, that s a lot. you could buy 195 $1 million pieces of art there. do you think it is worth that? i won t answer that question. i do love andy warhol. i like looking at it, which i can do for free. it is beautiful. cnn s coverage continues right now. good tuesday morning. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. overnight at least one person has died, several others injured after russian forces bombed the southern port city of odesa. it has been a big target in recent days. officials say several buildings on fire after hypersonic missiles, super fast missiles, hit a shopping mall and two hotels in the area. often civilian targets. plus, devastating images coming out of kharkiv, in the