Mr Phillips's father was a lawyer from Odessa.

ECONOMIST: William Phillips

As director of rabbinical services at the Institute of Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, Mississippi, Mr Klaven, a 31-year-old former military chaplain, presides over 133 such congregations throughout the south, from Odessa, Texas in the west to Brunswick, Georgia in the east, and north as far as Leesburg, Virginia.

ECONOMIST: Jews in the South

The small, Soviet-designed AN-24 plane was carrying 45 people from the Black Sea port of Odessa, according to emergency officials.

NPR: Ukraine: 4 Dead, 2 Injured In Crash-Landing

Most women who land in Odessa are, like Katya, poorly educated, and often from villages that subsist on remittances from happier emigrants.

ECONOMIST: A hub of the modern slave trade