Through an agreed route through the black sea, it then announces a humanitarian corridor without any kind of acknowledgement from russia, which has continued to target commercial vessels. Yet we have a cargo ship leave the Port Of Odessa this morning. It had been trapped there since before the invasion, and it continues to make its way south towards turkey. There are some in the insurance and Shipping Industry that are rightfully nervous about this because russia enjoys quite a lot of dominance on the southern ukrainian coast. It uses its vessels to blockade ukrainian ports. And yet this vessel seems to have made its way through. More could follow but there is a big if here on whether russia decides to leave the vessels alone and it is a big if because it continues to strike ukrainian ports with drone strikes. Earlier, i spoke with john allen, a retired Us Marine Corps Four Star General and former commander of the Nato International Security Assistance force, about that bbc reporting a
to see as time unfolds. on that point about strategic direction and firepower, do you think ukraine is receiving enough support from the us governments and other governments? well, the ukrainians would say that there is no end to the support that they need, and in truth, of course, the united states and other countries have given an enormous amount tens of billions of support to the ukrainians. but it is notjust a matter of the quantity of support that ukrainians are looking for, but it is also the kind of support. and as we have seen, other countries, the uk in particular, and i really applaud the uk s effort, here, has given the ukrainians long range capability with storm shadow missile and the french have now given a long range missile for precision strikes and precision engagement
intended to try and get to the sea of azov eventually and to turn to the south west and try to cut off the land bridge into crimea. that seems to be the strategic direction that they are pursuing, but we will have to see as time unfolds. on that point about strategic direction and firepower do you think ukraine is receiving enough support from the us governments and other governments? well, the ukrainians would say that there is no end to the support that they need, and in truth, of course, the united states and other countries have given an enormous amount tens of billions of support to the ukrainians. but it is notjust a matter of the quantity of support that ukrainians are looking for, but it is also the kind of support. and as we have seen,