- Olga Jarova points to a nice spot on the restaurant terrace where President Volodymyr Zelensky sat on his visits to Odesa, Ukraine’s Black Sea port now under de facto Russian blockade.
- Mykolaiv has been regularly targeted by Russian forces since the start of their invasion on February 24 but the Ukrainians have prevented them taking all the coast — despite near daily bombings.
- It knows only too well that it is coveted by Russian President Vladimir Putin for historic as much as for strategic reasons.
With sea off-limits, Odesa rallies home-front war effort
