NBC News’ Molly Hunter reports from Odesa, Ukraine, where Ukrainians are preparing for the arrival of Russian forces and why the port city is an important stronghold in the battle for control over the country.
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Even with war added to Brandon’s long list of failures, his voters still justify and support his spineless incompetence.
I honestly regret voting for Biden
WTF is going on?? 😭😭😭😭
We all Americans from all Americans continent we will not support hate against Russia we will not support Nazis groups against Russia
We do not approve Puttin actions
But we will not support haters against Russia or any other countries!!!
“All Americans”? Ridiculous!
Please don’t represent me just because I live on the same continent as you. While I normally condemn haters against any country or ethical groups, I”ll side with them if people from that country chooses to support an invasion without being attacked first
@Ann Santos👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 finally some adequate answer!! Soo refreshing.. reading all these comments and can’t find another word but nazi from Ukraine side. Terrifying.
@BellaNoel Fortepiano can’t find <= that is some B.S. right there.
Wow… Who are you to represent all Americans, must be a bot..
arrest Putin : https://youtu.be/NJdchGO5TnI
These comments sound like bots.
If you’re Russian, and you just say there’s nothing we can do. You are part of the problem. We do hate the Russian Government. Just following orders defense never aged well with history.
They are not coming no more, they all after putyina long live Odesa
The world is praying for the Ukrainian people to win and to get this evil right out of their country that Putin started may it all go back to him tenfold
Via sanctions
The UN sucks as any regulatory organisation. You’d think all the smaller countries of the UN would be yelling at the the larger more armed nations, along with them, to put an end to this slaughter, destruction of ukraine. The UN should have flooded this country with peace keepers, daring the xenophobic russian dictator to take on the world instead of picking on, by comparison, a relatively unarmed country. Plenty of incompetent, corrupted old leadership all around, creating death and destruction for innocent mostly young people because of their oversized egos.
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God Bless Ukraine. Please keep Odessa in your care.
Glory to God, Glory to Ukraine
David, to whom you think God placed a bet to win?
@Agustin DeJesus God selects men of character and courage. Glory to God, Glory to Ukraine
@David BraxtonDavid, then God forgot to select me…..why?
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Odesa conquered by Russians 🚩
Odessa in the beginning will get overwhelm by Russian soldiers due to the fact, it’s Russian military strategies and tactics to bring as much manpower as possible.
In the end, Odessa will defeat and conquer all Russian military forces because Ukrainians will never surrender to anyone.
May the ghosts of history haunt the interlopers may they pay for every cobble they disturb and may the suffer immeasurable psychic horror for every single drop of blood shed by the lion hearted heroes of Ukraine
The Russians would need to perform three offensive drives 1) Retake Kherson 2) Take Mykolaiv 3) Drive on and encircle Odessa. Given how easily the Ukrainians have been able to sustain themselves in Mykolaiv and the high losses the Russians suffered trying to outflank Mykolaiv by pushing on Voznesens’k, they might be able to accomplish retaking Kherson, but to actually outflank Mykolaiv, let alone take it, no.
@Nobody Knows You are imagining the Red Army, the guys who never even built an aircraft carrier, not the brutality of Aleppo or Mariupol. If he touches Odesa it’s his cemetery
Maybe he worlds but I am one pacifist who gives my 1/3m fraction of a vote and my body to fight
Did Russia say they were going to attack Odesa?
They want Odessa so they hold all ports of trade in Ukraine We must hold Odessa please pray hard for them Odessa is a beautiful Port of the black Sea
They are doing military drilling.
Loose lips sank ships.
us fighting russia to the last ukrainian says us diplomat
Putin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤑🤑🤑
True
Odessa is the most likely place Putin will use Chemical weapons because it kills people without destroying the buildings. Odessa was once the jewel in the Russian crown and Putin will NOT want to bomb it because he wants it in tact.
I give my 1/331,002,651 of a vote for America to defend Odesa
STAND DOWN PUTA
Odessa is important. I (german) hope u get the weapons to stop the invaders.
Russia cannot have it at all.
@Robert Hoyt Russia can not have it AT ALL.
@Benjamin U said what I said. Didn’t u?
Stand your ground Odessa Russia must not take you or all is lost,I know you are prepared for this I’ve been watching you and your doing an awesome job I’m praying for the anti Air equipment to protect the sky to get there faster and I hope you get a little something extra to take out those ships
Glory to Ukraine and protect it’s people sending love and prayers 🙏💪🌏💯
Putin might do air attack, missiles, locating Targets and landing the missiles, then go use ground Troops.
What a nightmare, this is why Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to Join NATO, so Putin can bully Ukraine whenever Putin wants.
Sad 😔 💔
“The other half are enlisting.” Dictator Zelensky has order the conscription of all Ukrainian men from ages 18 to 60. Odesa is surrounded, its sea lanes are blocked by Russian warships and sea mines the Ukrainian navy tossed willy-nilly in the Black Sea. Mines which are drifting into shipping lanes far from Odesa. We will know the war is over when “El supremo” Zelensky and his Jewish Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky move to South Florida. Kolomoisky is a billionaire grifter who financed the neo-Nazi Azov Batallion’s creation. Azov Batallion massacres of Russian women and children since 2014 are a big reason for Putin’s invasion. A fact NBC’s lying reporters won’t tell you.
Odesa is Putin’s graveyard
Bye bye Russian Putin nazi”s. 🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️🙋♂️
a vidio of ukranian troops shooting russian POWs in the legs
Ukrainians keep insisting that once enough of their people are slaughtered then the West will finally give them all the weapons they ask even plead for. Tragically I’m not so sure. People’s hearts are bit cold indifferent. They keep buying PUTIN’S nuclear war escalation threat that most senior military commanders say is empty that it’ll destroy him as well. Don’t let Putin set what’s acceptable to him and what is not. He’s the aggressor and what do we do next time he invades yet another country ? Crimea, Chechnya, Georgia and one other. He started small but now grew emboldened. Will his bluff our fear drive us from doing the right thing ? I hope not
Slava Ukraini 💙💛
The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished
Luck will still smile on us brother-Ukrainians.
Our enemies will die, as the dew does in the sunshine,
and we, too, brothers, we’ll live happily in our land.
We’ll not spare either our souls or bodies to get freedom
and we’ll prove that we brothers are of Kozak kin.
About time for the Russian army and their dictator to go away. One goal, one objective.
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evil will not triump over good u will win this battle
I hope they have anti-ship missiles systems are limbered up and ready to go.
there no more war ship that why they can not show
I’ve got a feeling that when the Russian warships get close enough to Odessa that they will launch a few hundred cruise missiles into the heart of Odessa ; and make it look like Aleppo; Mariupol with many burnt out buildings; and the grad bombs will be fired from the Russian military jets causing the buildings to be destroyed.
@Daniel Whyatt . I’m rooting for the Ukrainian military; and the militia to destroy the Russian warships that have been launching cruise missiles into the cities in Ukraine.
the ships are within cruise missile range already… the other day the Ukrainians drew a ship close enough to hit it with artillery from the shore (sank it). my guess is the Russians a probing and want to know where the artillery is so they can destroy it, ahead of a beach landing. it won’t end well if the Russian try it.
1. you don’t have to get close to launch cruise missles. It’s the very idea of a cruise missle^^
2. Rusia doesn’t have “hundreds” of missles on those ships. they shot most of it and are already using their anti ship missles against land targets.
3. They could start to shell the city with ship based artillery, but would have to come awfully close to do so. UA has anti ship missles and artillery near the coast. They would return fire.
4. UA Losses at land can be replaced. Rashists losses at sea are permanent.
Let’s go Ukrainians and friends!!!! You can do it 💪 make the russians troops bow down and cry! Make them beg for mercy and wish they never came to Ukraine. You can do it
Come on NATO and USA get in there and end this ….
SOON .
THE PORT IS NOW IN CONTROL BY RUSSIAN TROOPS.
Dream on.. Still sleeping
Stay strong n courageous.
God bless n protect you all
Stand ur city 👍🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽📿📿📿📿
Rushists, don’t even try to get to our Odesa or you will feed our fish! 😴🐟💪⚓
I’m really hoping that Odessa doesn’t even get touched now. The Ukraine Army is starting to push Russian Troops back from ground that they had control of. The Russian Troops are getting smaller and smaller as time goes on. The Ukraine Army is starting to receive more and more offensive equipment so I believe they will be able to keep pushing Russian Troops back further everyday.
Go 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇺🇦 Go !!!
Odessa was and will be a Russian city. The dark period of its Ukrainian history is almost over.
Good luck ruling a city or country that doesn’t want your rule. Ireland is a prime example.
@Curtis McKiernan People should know when they are liberated! And they will know )))
Dear Citizens of the World!! especially to the heads of NATO and the United States, I ask you not to stand aside, you all see that Russian fascism does not stop bombing Ukraine. Ukraine, which gave rise to Russia, until 1872, Russia did not exist, it was only Muscovy.! do not let Russians into your country, they are lazy, they do not teach and do not respect the culture of your country and speak Russian and behave like the rulers of the world, but they are not educated, cowardly and understand only force. Ukraine and the whole world asks today to close the sky over Ukraine!!! so that tomorrow you do not cry from grief. Putin and his jackals don’t care which cities to bomb and which premises, they see the enemy everywhere in the maternity hospital, they see Nazis in hospitals and schools, they have enemies, and even in churches and mosques they all have enemies. they rob stores and level entire cities with bean attacks! but in spite of everything Ukraine today is fighting against Russian fascism on the battlefield, we are not alone in having volunteers from Belarus from Azerbaijan from Chechnya, Ingush, Kazakhstan, Dagestan, Poland Britain Belgium Austria Latvia Lithuania Estonia. and our other neighbors, but they are fighting the Nazis together with the Ukrainian army against Putin’s ghouls. Close the sky over Ukraine!!! already more than 150 children killed Putin with bombs and more than 20 thousand civilians! I ask dear brothers Americans British Germans All all European countries I ask you to close the sky over Ukraine!! Glory to Ukraine!
RUSSIA MUST DEFEAT UKRAIN AND THAT WILL BE THE WEST’S BIGGEST DEFEAT. RUSSIA WILL PREVAIL, THE BEST OF ARM IS YET TO COME
“Odesa Prepares For Arrival Of Russian Forces” so let’s #ConvinceItForward with #SlavaBOHU
What about BIDEN’S GOOF-UPS IN POLAND ?
2 and 3 iskander missiles 😊 odessa go down 🇷🇺
BLOCK ALL ROADS TO KYIV
BLOCK ALL ROADS TO ODESSA
Russia will use rokets on odessa and later will be in russian hands.
The people here advising are in their peaceful places far away. They don’t know what’s on ground. Only the wise know when to fight and not. Stop cheerleading Ukrainians to death traps.
In February 2014, the EU became the guarantor of the agreements between Ukraine’s then-president Viktor Yanukovych and the Maidan protesters in Kiev, Lavrov reminded viewers. “It was a pinnacle of diplomacy. But, the next morning, the opposition spat on that diplomacy, and the EU had to swallow it.”
Yanukovich ended up being deposed after violent clashes and fleeing the country, and the new Ukrainian authorities soon sent their military to the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, where most of the population had refused to recognize the coup in the capital.
USA and Nato are Terrorists who arm Nazi’s.
Follow the money.
Get out of there. Russian forces will destroy it.
another pack of lies..shame on you dirty reporting!!! they can not show you any naval military because it is decimated by now!!! why dont you say that to people. AT this point to keep fighting this is just killing more people for nothing!!!!!
шестиёрки американская
Odessaaaaaa.
Who is the world,The Western world has coercide their sheepish followers to make a public media statement that Ukrainian politician are doing the right that led to war.
How do you feel when the same Zelensky was pounding his own people for the past years
Zelensky banned media houses and political parties .
But simply because he is aligned to America and Nato he is an angel.
I’m from Africa if a single journalist is arrested America and EU don’t waste time in slapping sanctions under human rights and freedom of speech.
Any progressive and peace loving world citizen must not be a witness to Zelensky genocide equally goes for Russians invasion.
But Western world provokes,protects,props up,persuades,perdue,persecute,and finally betrayss
I winder how much equipment those three ships managed to offload at Mariupol? If Putin destroys Odessa, no way can he possibly keep pretending he wanted to “rescue” Ukraine all along.
You Putintrolls still don’t understand how shameful the rest of the world sees this. How pathetic all the different excuses for your aggression look to the rest of the world. What a pariah your country has made of itself.
200K Russians vs 2 million Ukrainians.
Destroy putin regime lol only we can do it. Lol stupid this is a power not middle east we need to show our power in military and economics weak biden administration
Wow, a country that is well prepared.
Russia will fail…they won’t be able to take it.
ZZZZZZVVVVVV
Russia been killing and destroying in Syria for the past 9 years. They used Syria for their military trainings. They used chemical weapons at Obama time and the world didn’t do nothing. No economic sanctions. FIFA World Cup just ban every team from Russia to compete in any European tournament including the World Cup this year in Qatar. But in 2018 they rewarded them the World Cup and no country boycott the games.
I was feeling awful during the whole video… until that last sentence!! Hope they are right.
Slava Ukraini.
I suspect that naval officer is correct. The Russians are losing ground in the north around Kyiv and even a few places around Mariupol. The general impression I get is that the Ukrainian forces are getting stronger and the Russians are getting weaker. That’s not to say Russia doesn’t still have a great numerical advantage, but from what I’ve heard a lot of conscript enlistments expire in April, and it will be interesting to see how they manage to re-fill the ranks or keep those conscripts in the field beyond their time. They’re already deserting left and right.
Putin wants easy access to the Mediterranean. Thats well known. He thought he could overrun Ukraine defences and get what he wanted. That’s why he wanted the Crimea. Odessa has been the trade hub of the Ukraine for years. It has the naval infrastructure Putin needs. I would be very surprised if Russia does not withdraw and redeployment. They will regroup , learn their lessons, and go for Odessa. This time they will go by sea.
Don’t the world feels the US media is a total hyprocrite when it promotes n supports the Ukarine causes etc but not using Pressure to their leader to help in the cease fire or peace talk..Hatre cannot end hatre but dialogues n empathy, the world needs to know the prospectives from from Russia n Ukraine side n ask both to.stop..
leaving the city, donot fight if u donnot only dust left, the city will be the same if left it there, let zelensky be a candidate for new US president
Face Putin’s corruption! and war criminal! Shouldn’t we send Putin going to jail ?
I am sure the Ukraine 🇺🇦 Army are Waiting and Preparing !! for the Russians’s Invasion which will never happen because the Price that the Russians will Suffer from the Ukraine Army will be Devastating 😫 for the Russians. Extremely Painful and the Russians’s Humiliation will be horrible. Russians’s other countries that surrounding Russia 🇷🇺 will see how Weak Russians are and the other countries might also try to rebale and achieve freedom from the Russians Regime. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦. Every day, the Longer the War of the Russians against Ukraine Army will be extended, the Russians’ Losses and Humiliations will get Bigger and More Devastating 😫 Efrat. Israel.
Why doesn’t Odesa just sign capitulation before is ruined and so many lives evaporated?
Because you dont know what it is like to live in an oppressed environment. It would be death itself to do so.
*Warning* – Watch Putin now very carefully, he’s mobilising men across the country for the army big time and he’s got his nukes primed.
If he’s pulling troops out then its time for you to watch out. He’s up to no good.
It wont take much to nuke/hit a city and take it with a parachute assault.
He’s not worried about human life we have seen this, he’s a maverick.
He thinks the population is with him, truth is they are scared to death and unlikly to speak against him thats the truth, and Putin will likely to go balistic if his ego is not being massaged!
Odesa..✌️😊✌️🇻🇳🇲🇲🇰🇭🇱🇦🇹🇭🇸🇬🇵🇭🇧🇳🇲🇾🇮🇩
. In 2000, the Quarantine Pier at Odessa Commercial Sea Port was declared a free port and free economic zone for a period of 25 years. Russians attacking Odessa, will hurt them horribly, economically!
When Rus can not reach it by land and its to risky to paradrop, then they will do no sea landing for sure, as the soldiers dieing on a assault, would be way to high. Great job Ukrain at Mykolev and Nova Odesa.
US Today: dementia, impotentia,alchimer…no one takes you seriously anymore …
People better evacuate Odessa. Russia will take it and it will look like
Mariupol!
https://youtu.be/Rn8B4WxB5eA
Ukraine takes Control !!
Russia Mility losses in Ukraine WAR !!
Time for Uncle Sam to get real!
“Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, Go to (king) Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life” (Bible).🇺🇦🇧🇷