Russian missiles strike Odesa and Kryvyi Rih
More now on the Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight, via Reuters: an overnight Russian air strike on the key Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.
A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.
Moscow has intensified its air attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, including Izmail and Reni, after it quit a grain deal in July that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains.
Separately on Tuesday, a Russian missile strike also damaged a local enterprise in the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, its mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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In Russia, Tass reports that seven settlements in the Kursk region have lost power after a Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on to an electricity sub-station. It cited the Telegram channel of regional governor Roman Starovoyt. He reported no casualties.
Russian sources on Telegram, citing the occupying authorities, claim that Ukraine fired 32 shells into the occupied portion of Kherson region overnight. Russia claimed to annex Kherson from Ukraine in late 2022, despite only partially controlling the territory. There are no details of casualties.
Odesa’s regional authority has issued two handout images showing the scenes there in the aftermath of another overnight attack on the port city.
Suspilne, citing the foreign ministry, reports that the Korabelnyi district in the city of Kherson has been struck. It writes that “high-rise buildings and private houses were damaged. Information about the victims is being clarified.”
Russian missiles strike Odesa and Kryvyi Rih
More now on the Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight, via Reuters: an overnight Russian air strike on the key Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.
A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.
Moscow has intensified its air attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, including Izmail and Reni, after it quit a grain deal in July that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains.
Separately on Tuesday, a Russian missile strike also damaged a local enterprise in the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, its mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Ukraine drones downed in Belgorod, Kursk and Crimea says Moscow
Russian air defence units also repelled several Ukraine drone attacks over the Belgorod and Kursk regions late on Monday, destroying at least 11 drones in total, Russia’s defence ministry said.
The ministry in several separate statements on its Telegram messaging app said that seven drones were downed over the Belgorod region and four over the Kursk region.
The ministry provided no information on possible damage or injuries from the attacks. Moscow rarely discloses details, unless civilian or non-military infrastructure is damaged.
Russian strikes on Odesa overnight
Reuters: A overnight Russian air strike on the key Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.
A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.
Missile strikes business in Kryvyi Rih, central Ukraine
Our top story this morning: A missile has hit a business in the city of Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defence Council said on Telegram.
“In the morning, the occupiers attacked Kryvyi Rih with a missile. They hit one of the city’s enterprises. All emergency services are on site. The consequences are being clarified,” he said. There were no casualties reported.
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Welcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. This is Helen Sullivan with the latest.
Our top story this morning: A missile has hit a business in the city of Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defence Council said on Telegram. “In the morning, the occupiers attacked Kryvyi Rih with a missile. They hit one of the city’s enterprises. All emergency services are on site. The consequences are being clarified.”
Russian air defence units also repelled several Ukraine drone attacks over the Belgorod and Kursk regions late on Monday, destroying at least 11 drones in total, Russia’s defence ministry said. The ministry in several separate statements on its Telegram messaging app said that seven drones were downed over the Belgorod region and four over the Kursk region. The ministry provided no information on possible damage or injuries from the attacks. Moscow rarely discloses details, unless civilian or non-military infrastructure is damaged.
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Ukraine has claimed it killed Adm Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, along with 33 other officers, in one of Kyiv’s boldest attacks yet on the occupied peninsula of Crimea. The Ukrainian military said Friday’s attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials.
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Russian airstrikes and shelling killed six people in Ukraine and caused “significant damage” to infrastructure at the Black Sea port of Odesa and to grain storage facilities, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
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Fragments of a missile were found in a village in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region on Monday after a Russian aerial attack on neighbouring Ukraine overnight, regional authorities said. The pro-Moscow separatist region broke away after a brief civil war after the collapse of the Soviet Union and is not recognised internationally. “An S-300 missile warhead … fell in [the village of] Chitcani, near a house, and got stuck in the ground,” Oleg Belyakov, the co-chair of a commission in charge of peacekeeping operations in Transnistria, told Russia’s state-run Tass news agency.
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A UN investigation into human rights violations in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion warned that evidence indicates the use of torture by Russian forces has been “widespread and systematic”.
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed that his army had taken delivery of US Abrams battle tanks, boosting Kyiv’s forces in their slow-moving counteroffensive against Russian troops.
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Poland raised the prospect of providing Ukraine with older weapons from its country’s arsenal after they are replaced with more modern equivalents, in an apparent attempt to defuse a row that caused relations to sour last week.
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Hungary will not support Ukraine on any issue in international affairs until Kyiv restores “the former rights for ethnic Hungarians on its territory”, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, told his country’s parliament.
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The EU’s trade commissioner has warned that China’s position on the war in Ukraine could endanger its relationship with Europe, while calling for a more balanced economic relationship with China and noting an EU trade deficit of nearly $425bn.