Sacramento now has 13 "sister cities" with the city councils approval on Tuesday of making Sumy, Ukraine the capital cities newest international partner.
meantime, the state emergency service of ukraine released images of the shelling am mykolaiv. the city was hit by multiple rocket launches on monday morning. a russian strike hit an evacuation crossing point in kyiv, killing a family with two children and several other civilians on sunday. the u.s. says credible reports of attacks on civilians are being documented for possible war crimes investigation. resistance hasn t wavered. a video by the ukrainian police show rocket propelled grenades. nato and u.s. are resisting president volodymyr zelenskyy for no-fly zone, but the u.s. is working with poland on possibly providing fighter jets to ukraine. the administration is also discussing banning russian oil imports. meanwhile, the u.s. and its
translator: they are preparing to bomb odessa. russian people always used to come to odessa and they only knew warmth and generosity. and what s now actually bombs against odessa. this will be a war crime. this will be historical crime. let s get to cnn s nick payton walsh who joins us from odessa. nick, give us a sense of what you re seeing on the ground and odessa, it s a vital port? reporter: yeah, we have been hearing for days of the possibility of maybe an amphibious or naval a salt against this third largest city in ukraine. it s maritime to the outside world. you can t control ukraine if you don t have odessa as part of that. but so far throughout the night and this morning with horizontal snow a moment ago, it has been quiet. not the case, though, from where you just saw the report. at 5:00 this morning, a number
at the city 150 millimeters drive distance from sumy city and they are waiting there on standby. they are hoping for a local cease-fire to happen and that is what the officials told the media on saturday when they held a press conference saying they have spoken to both sides, russia and ukraine. they re hoping for the local cease-fire to take place to get our people out of there. as of now, over 20,000 indian na nationals have left ukraine and evacuated and they are now on their way back to india. but this situation is still developing at the moment, isa. okay. vedika, give me a sense. obviously we don t know how long they will be there. if we re waiting for the cease-fire, russia and both sides don t seem to have agreed on the cease-fire. they have broken it over the weekend twice now. what are the chance that s they have to be there for much longer? what is the embassy telling you? reporter: well, the chances of them really surviving through