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Russian drones hit Danube River port infrastructure that’s important to Ukraine’s grain exports, injuring at the least two individuals within the assault on southern components of the Odesa area on Sunday, Ukrainian officers stated.
The Danube has turn into Ukraine’s fundamental route for exporting grain since July, when Russia give up a UN and Turkey-brokered deal that had given secure passage to Kyiv’s exports of grains, oilseeds and greens oils by way of the Black Sea.
Sunday’s assault came about the day earlier than Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan are as a consequence of maintain talks within the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Turkey has been urgent to revive the grain deal.
Ukraine’s South Military Command stated on social media that at the least two civilians have been injured within the early morning assault on what it referred to as “civil infrastructure of the Danube”.
The Ukrainian Air Force stated air defence methods shot down 22 of the 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia.
Officials didn’t give particulars of which port facility was hit however some Ukrainian media reported blasts within the Reni port, which together with Izmail is one in every of Ukraine’s two main ports on the Danube. The navy stated a hearth that resulted from the assault on the facility was shortly extinguished.
The Russian Defence Ministry was quoted by Interfax as saying {that a} group of Russian drones efficiently struck gasoline depots on the Reni port utilized by the Ukrainian navy.
Reni and Izmail have been repeatedly attacked by Russian drones in latest weeks.
