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May 2, 2024 · Odesa, seaport, southwestern Ukraine. It stands on a shallow indentation of the Black Sea coast at a point approximately 19 miles (31 km) north of the Dniester River estuary and about 275 miles (443 km) south of Kyiv. The city is an important cultural and educational center as well as a major port.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Odessa, the transliteration of the name from Russian, was the traditional English spelling of the city's name favoured before Ukraine's independence in 1991 (similarly to the spelling of Kyiv versus Kiev).
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Mar 12, 2022 · Eyewitness. Odesa: Inside the fortified city that is Putin's next target, as people prepare for war. Odesa is Ukraine's third-largest city and is strategically important to Vladimir Putin. If he can take the city, then he could cut off Ukraine from the sea, which is why it is one of the main targets for the Russian offensive.
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Aug 19, 2022 · As Odesa, perhaps more than any other Ukrainian city, illustrates, Mr. Putin has spread and redoubled Ukrainian national consciousness. “There’s been a tectonic shift,” said Serhiy Dibrov, a ...
May 5, 2014 · A man looks at a graffiti produced to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine and to protest Russia's annexation of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in Odessa April 7, 2014. Yevgeny Volokin ...
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May 27, 2022 · The Economist explains. Why is Odessa important to both Ukraine and Russia? Ukraine’s largest port is its strongest link to the world economy. Image: Getty Images. May 27th 2022....
Jul 19, 2023 · July 19, 2023. The last two nights have brought some of the most furious Russian aerial assaults on Odesa, the southern Ukrainian port city, of the nearly 17-month-long war. The city on...
