One killed in Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv and Odesa

AFP

Russia carried out air strikes on Kyiv and the southern Ukrainian area of Odesa early on Wednesday, killing a civilian and inflicting a hearth and injury at a Danube River port, Ukraine’s navy stated.

During an almost three-hour drone assault on Odesa, a number of agricultural and port services have been broken, and a number of other fires have been reported within the Izmail district, an necessary grain exporting hub on the Danube, stated regional governor Oleh Kiper.

“An employee of an agricultural enterprise, who was seriously injured, died in the hospital,” Kiper stated.

Kiper didn’t identify the port. Agriculture consultancy APK-Inform stated there had been a hearth on the small Kilia river port.

Ukraine operates a number of river ports on the Danube in addition to two main ports, Reni and Izmail, which have beforehand been attacked by Russian drones. Kilia, which focuses on dry cargo, was attacked for the primary time, APK-Inform stated.

Ukraine’s air power stated air defence techniques destroyed 23 out of the 33 air weapons Russia launched in a single day. They included 25 Shahed drones, seven cruise missiles and one Iskander ballistic missile, it stated.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the studies. There was no instant remark by Moscow.

Russia additionally launched missiles at Kyiv early on Wednesday, although Ukrainian air defence techniques shot all of them down, officers stated.

“Another missile attack by the enemy on a peaceful city,” Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv navy administration, stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Falling particles broken the facades of buildings, personal vehicles, home windows in a medical facility and a police workplace, officers stated. No casualties have been reported within the capital.

Reuters’ witnesses in Kyiv heard a number of blasts which seemed like air defence techniques being deployed at round 05:50 am (native time).

Since its full-scale invasion 18 months in the past, Russia has incessantly launched air assaults on Kyiv and different locations in Ukraine removed from the frontline.