Russia carried out missile and drone strikes on southern and jap Ukraine in a single day that brought about harm to infrastructure within the Black Sea port of Odesa, Ukrainian officers mentioned on Tuesday.
The assaults adopted a pledge of retaliation by Russia after a blast on a bridge linking Russia to the Crimean Peninsula on Monday. Moscow {accused} Ukraine of attacking the bridge, which is used to move navy provides to Crimea, seized and annexed by Russia in 2014.
Ukraine’s air drive mentioned all six Kalibr missiles that had been fired in a single day, and 31 out of 36 drones, had been shot down. The missiles and a lot of the drones had been downed over Odesa and Mykolaiv areas within the south, whereas the remainder had been destroyed over the jap areas of Donetsk, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk.
Ukraine’s southern operational navy command mentioned that each one six Kalibr cruise missiles fired by Russia in a single day had been shot down over Odesa, and that 21 Iranian-made Shahed drones had been downed over the encompassing area.
It mentioned falling particles and blast waves broken a number of houses and unspecified port infrastructure in Odesa, however gave few particulars. There was no phrase of any deaths however an aged man was wounded in his house and was taken to hospital, it added.
Odesa has typically been attacked since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 though the port was a part of the U.N.-brokered deal permitting the protected Black Sea export of grain that Russia pulled out of on Monday.
The most recent assault was “additional proof that the country-terrorist needs to hazard the lives of 400 million folks in varied international locations that depend upon Ukrainian meals exports,” Andriy Yermak, the pinnacle of the presidential employees, mentioned on Telegram.
U.S. support chief Samantha Energy, who introduced greater than $500 million in humanitarian help throughout a go to to Ukraine on Monday, is predicted to go to Odesa on Tuesday.
A fireplace broke out at an unspecified facility within the port of Mykolaiv late on Monday, town mayor mentioned. The port metropolis additionally gives Ukraine with entry to the Black Sea.
“It’s fairly critical,” Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich mentioned of the fireplace on the Telegram messaging app.
The southern navy command mentioned the fireplace was shortly put out and reported no casualties. It added that 4 drones had been shot down over the Mykolaiv area.
SOURCE: REUTERS
