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What Odesa Really Means For Ukraine’s Future As temperatures rise, and as Odesa’s plucky residents remerge after the long winter on foot and scooter, there’s no sign that this legendary city is at all discountenanced by the recent hostilities. Lt. General Ben Hodges, a veteran Ukraine watcher, recently observed that the Russians covet three cities along Ukraine’s Black and Azov Seas, including Odesa, and a water canal north of Crimea. The canal scenario strikes most Ukraine experts as plausible and the conflict over the waterway was recently written up in the New York Times. But Odesa? Given that Russia failed to occupy it in 2014, I was somewhat skeptical of Hodges’ judgment, so I traveled there to see for myself what was taking place in the crown jewel of the Black Sea. I couldn’t find anyone who took the notion seriously. Of course, Moscow has every reason to covet this splendid warm-water port, but no one should expect Odesa to fold without a fierce fight.

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