:quality(75)/cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/5Sv0wyWa/poster.jpg?fit=850%2C400&ssl=1 "Russian forces prepare to bombard Ukrainian port of Odessa, Zelensky warns")
Russian troops are preparing to bombard Odessa, a strategic city and main port of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Sunday.
“They are preparing to bomb Odessa. Odessa!”Zelensky exclaimed in a video message.
“It will be a military crime. It will be a historic crime.”he declared, at a time when the Russian army, coming from the crimea annexed, continues to advance in southern Ukraine.
Nearly a million people live in Odessaan important port in the south of Ukraine. Its population speaks Ukrainian and Russian and in it there are Bulgarian and Jewish minorities.
Since Russia launched his invasion Ukraineon February 24, the Russian forces try in the east and south of the country to achieve territorial continuity between the separatist zones of the donbas and the already annexed Crimea.
An attack on Odessa would extend the offensive further west, not far from the border with Moldova, a country in which Russia already has a military presence in the Russian-speaking enclave of Transnistria.
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