The precarious deal to allow grain shipments to leave Ukraine’s Black Sea ports is holding for the moment. But it’s not all plain sailing.
Henry Worsley reports from Transnistria.
The loss of Kherson is a bitter blow – it creates a land gate for Russian troops to advance on Odessa and cut Ukraine off from the sea.
As the Russian invasion intensifies I get an update from Nikita in his tatty uniform in Odessa, and Dima, whose city of Lviv has been transformed by war.
The former Black Sea sailor, diver, poet and jazz pianist has just signed up to fight alongside scores of young Ukrainians on the front.
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