the significance of the area in the city of odessa and why it may now be a target. reporter: essentially cut off ukraine from the coast, from the water bringing in imports and also as we mentioned, a main base for the ukrainian navy and so that is a huge huge area and also if they do the russian forces do end up focusing on odessa like they 12 it would further connect all of the land a court order been talking about an all of the into monday over there are some sections of russian supporters in the country. shannon: i know early on, with a long time about the fact that was sort of the transit point amazing that people heading from the east and the westward and is it still sort of an upper people who are playing are people singer and what is the latest on that. reporter: anything people coming back and forth and even people who are fleeing from cities and