Olga Jarova points to a nice spot on the restaurant terrace where President Volodymyr Zelensky sat on his visits to Odessa, Ukraine's Black Sea port now under de facto Russian blockade.
Olga Jarova points to a nice spot on the restaurant terrace where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sat on his visits to Odessa, Ukraine’s Black Sea port now under de facto Russian blockade.
Before the invasion, Datcha, the restaurant that Jarova manages in a stately 19th-century home, mirrored the atmosphere in this historic city of sailors founded by Catherine the Great: nostalgic and carefree.
Odessa has so far escaped capture, but Russia has said that any ship venturing into its surrounding waters can expect to be met by its cannons.
Kyiv mined the harbor as a preventive measure after the invasion began.
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In the Ukrainian port of Izmail, on the Danube river that marks the border with Romania, rows of trucks filled with grain stand in line.
Dozens of kilometres f