Shocking debut for the extraordinary episode of Non è l’Arena starring Massimo Giletti, broadcasting live from Odessa, the city in Ukraine that could be the next target of Russian forces in the bloody war that began a little less than a month ago . Giletti is outside the bunker, where he will be leading the program, on Sunday, March 20, when loud roars are heard and Ukrainian antiaircraft missiles begin firing into the sky.
“The alarm was not announced, the antiaircraft missiles are launching, they are clearly visible in the sky,” Giletti told viewers as the tension mounted. “They tell us to go back” to the Red Cross refuge where the makeshift transmission was set up. The presenter invites the cameraman to follow the missiles in the sky as they continue to launch to stop a suspected Russian attack, perhaps from a drone. “We are in a theater of war and it is important to be here, explains Giletti, who went to the front to give direct testimony of the conflict: “This war affects us all, not just Russia and Ukraine. It is a war against democracy. Odessa is a city waiting, like in the desert of the Tatars “, the novel by Dino Buzzati, where the soldiers “waited for an attack from the desert. Here they are waiting for him from the sea “.
Shortly thereafter, the broadcast from the animal shelter continues and the Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Maistrouk praises the presenter for his courage: “You in Odessa are like a nofly zone”.