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(4 years ago)Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Russian forces are preparing to bomb Odessa, a historic port city on the Black Sea coast, reports The Guardian. They're preparing to bomb Odessa. Odessa! ” he said in a video address, forwards the Express “The Russians have always come to Odessa. They have always felt [...]
They're preparing to bomb Odessa. Odessa! ” he said in a video address, forwards to Journal Express
The Rus have always come to Odessa. They have always felt only warmth in Odessa. Just honesty. And now what? The bomb against Odessa? Artillery versus Odessa? Odessa rocket? It's gonna be a war crime. It will be a historic crime”, Zelenskiy added.
Russian forces have made progress in southern Ukraine since the start of the invasion on February 24th, occupying the town of Kherson and surrounding the port of Marioupolis, but Odessa has so far been spared from the attacks.
Almost a million people live in Odessa, a cosmopolis port on Ukraine's southern coast with Ukrainian and Russian and Bulgarian and Jewish language and minority.
Russian progress from the partially occupied Crime has returned to the east to be linked to Russia-backed separatists and to capture the port of Mariupol of the Azov Sea.
But another part of the force has also been launched west toward Kherson on the road to Odessa. The town is also close to the Moldovan border and Russia's occupied Transnistria region.
During the first 11 days of the war, Russian forces from Belarus have also advanced toward the capital Kyiv from northwest and northeast, while another group bombed the northern town of Kharkiwi.
