Putin is raging with anger and violence that he will never take Odesa. It was his crown jewel and he will never have it.
Odessa is a beautiful city from what I read. The barbaric Rooskies should never get their filthy hands on it. The Bee Gees wrote a song about Odesssa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zPjBiN1GJ0&t=2s
Plus, Odessa being strategic, as the port that Ukrainian grain gets shipped out of. Ukrainians are the best wheat farmers in the world or among the best. This what Satan-Putin wants to destroy.