Ukrainians in Odessa, a city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, formed a human chain to fill sandbags in preparation of a possible Russian attack.
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh showed the chain of mainly young men who were passing down the sandbags to be placed into trucks and brought to the center of the city, which is the third largest in Ukraine and a popular tourist destination.
Residents are concerned about a Russia amphibious landing on the shore, Paton Walsh reported, especially because an Estonian vessel sank off the city’s port on Thursday. The ship was hit by Russian artillery, according to the official Twitter account of Ukrainian parliament.
When a man in line was asked if he ever expected to be there in the chain, he said, “We will defend our city and our country, for sure.”
