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our story this week centers on the city of odessa ukraine which is a city of about a million people
on the southern coast on the black sea what you see happening behind us is the demolition of an
apartment building a 17-story apartment building that was hit by a russian missile they're trying
to clear out the debris of the four floors that were blown out by the missile missile
went straight through the building eight people were killed one three-month-old child was killed
in the attack we don't know why the russians would attack a civilian apartment building in
a city like odessa but the evidence certainly is plain odessa has not been hit as hard as some of
the cities out in the east mary upon for example which is a city of about 400 000 people has just
been absolutely leveled but odessa has been hit almost daily this happened just a few days before
we arrived and then on our first day of shooting here there was a bombing of a bridge and then
today as i speak to you now there was a second bombing of the same bridge just an hour or two ago
one of the remarkable things that we keep running into is the difference between what
people in russia understand about this war and what everyone else in the world
understands about this war the russians have a complete news blackout it's literally against
the law to report on the war in ukraine inside russia and we received a stark reminder of that
as we were talking to a family at one of the world food program food distribution sites a woman named
hannah told us that her parents live in russia and she's been talking to them on the phone trying to
explain to them what was happening in ukraine and her parents wouldn't have it they told her that
she was absolutely wrong that the russians were trying to liberate the people of ukraine and the
things that she was describing just couldn't have happened they were talking to their own daughter
here at the site of the apartment bombing we ran into odessa's mayor gennady off
in all the wars that i've covered in a long career now uh in central america
afghanistan iraq south sudan i have never seen this kind of wholesale destruction
of civilian neighborhoods ukraine is a very prosperous modern 21st century country
high-rise office buildings and apartment buildings like the one you see behind me
and particularly in the east and in the northern suburbs of kiev the russians have just shelled
and bombed neighborhoods block after block after block killing civilians putting their bodies into
mass graves it is the most shocking thing that i have ever seen in a war setting in my entire
career it is industrial madness in my view so the people of ukraine are continuing to to fight on an
amazing feat of arms pushing the russians out of the area of the capital city and still continuing
to fight to the last man in the east it is a remarkable story of courage and perseverance