Residents of Odessa formed a human chain on Monday to carry heavy sandbags from the beach onto waiting trucks as the Ukrainian port city frantically built defences against advancing Russian troops. By ...

ODESSA, Ukraine/LONDON (Reuters) - Black and white newsreel from 1941 shows residents of Odessa, then a Soviet city, building barricades with cobblestones, while the streets are lined with sandbag ...

Locals carry sandbags, filled with sand from Sobachyy beach, to bolster the city's defences, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues in Odessa, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Nacho Doce A ...

Olga Jarova points to a nice spot on the restaurant terrace where President Volodymyr Zelensky sat on his visits to Odessa, Ukraine's Black Sea port now under de facto Russian blockade. Before the ...

Buzzing with energy, surprising with quirkiness, impressing with history, Odessa may be one of the most fascinating places Ukraine has to offer. Being a relatively young city, only founded in 1794, ...

Odessa (Ukraine), 15 Mar A sepulchral silence floods the city that did not sleep and whose center is shielded to preserve the so-called pearl of the Black Sea. The port of Odessa is experiencing its ...

Odessa braces for possible Russian assault Port city is of great economic and symbolic importance Breakaway Transdniestria could give Russians a third front Experts say Odessa most vulnerable to ...