Ukraine says Russia’s Kalibr missile hit on Odessa port on Saturday, although Turkish Defence Minister Hulusai Akar and Russian news agencies over this issue said that the targets in Odessa were not hit by a Russian missile.
Twitter post of journalist Michael Tracey
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed this Sunday on Russia launched a missile attack against the Odessa port. Despite the agreement signed between the two nations on Friday. Russia violated the terms of the United Nations-brokered grain agreement in Istanbul.
The news broke that Kalibr missiles have destroyed the military infrastructure of the port of Odessa”, Zakharova has made announced on her Telegram account, where she explained that the attacks were aimed at a “Ukrainian military ship”, which was hit in this “high-precision” bombardment “.
The visual of the firefighters battling a blaze after the attack by Russians striking Odessa. The attack comes only a day after both sides agreed to allow grain exports through the Black Sea to ease a global food shortage.
Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and Ukrainian infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov have signed a landmark deal with the United Nations and Turkey on resuming grain shipments in an attempt to ease a global food crisis in which millions face hunger.
