Russian troops prepare to bomb Odessa, a strategic city and main port in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Sunday.
“They are preparing to bomb Odessa. Odessa!” Zelensky said in a video message.
“It will be a military crime. It will be a historic crime”, declared the president, as the Russian army, coming from the annexed Crimea, continues to advance in southern Ukraine.
Nearly a million people live in Odessa, a major port in southern Ukraine. The population speaks Ukrainian and Russian and the city also has Bulgarian and Jewish minorities.
Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Moscow’s forces have been trying, in the east and south, to achieve territorial continuity between the breakaway zones of Donbass and the already annexed Crimea.
An attack on Odessa would extend the offensive further west, near the border with Moldova, where Russia already has a military presence in the Russian-speaking enclave of Transnistria.
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