Samira Hussain

And some regions of Ukraine have been without power for several days.

Now there are more people that are without power.

And as you rightly pointed out, it's winter, it's cold, and it's freezing temperatures here.

And so the situation is quite difficult for many residents in Ukraine.

And if you listen to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, he'll say that this is in Russia's nature to ramp up these attacks around the holiday time, around Christmas time, that this is what they do because it is cold and because it is the holiday season.

And so the insinuation there that we could see more attacks in the coming days.

Yes, for the last several days we've seen some repeated attacks in Odessa really targeting the port infrastructure.

So Odessa is a port city along the Black Sea and what Ukraine says is that Russia is really trying to eliminate Ukraine's ability to be able to access the sea and to restrict movement not only of people but of course of goods as well.

And so this week and last week, we saw a lot more damage.

Seven people died in one of the attacks.

We've seen more attacks in Odessa overnight.

This time, no casualties.

But certainly, you're seeing a kind of shift in the war towards that area.

President Zelensky made it clear that there were more than 650 drones that were launched by Russia all over Ukraine.

And so Poland activated its defenses out of caution, but also remembered that Poland has accused Russia in the past of violating Polish airspace.

And so there is a bit of a reason why Poland would take this kind of action.

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