Explosions hit Odessa as Zelensky meets with Greek prime minister

Explosions were heard in the port of Odessa as Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the Greek prime minister in the city on Wednesday.

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00:00 Volodymyr Zelensky and the Greek Prime Minister heard a blast today as they finished their

00:05 tour of war-torn Odessa.

00:07 Zelensky said the explosion caused an unknown number of dead and wounded. Russian officials

00:13 made no immediate comment.

00:15 Foreign leaders have made numerous trips to Ukraine and they occasionally have had to

00:20 take refuge in shelters when air raid sirens sound.

00:24 Zelensky showed Mitotakis around the destruction in Odessa, where in the most recent major

00:30 Russian attack, 12 people, including five children, were killed when debris from a Russian

00:35 drone hit an apartment block on March 2.

00:39 Mitotakis said Odessa held a special place in Greek history, as it is the place where

00:44 the Fidiki Eitaria organization was founded and fought for Greek independence from Ottoman

00:50 rule in the 19th century.

00:51 For more information visit www.fema.gov

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