The Ukrainian air force said on Saturday it had shot down 22 Russian “drones” in the Odessa region, in the south of the country.
“On the night of September 3, 2023, Russian occupiers launched several waves of ‘Shahed-136/131 drone strikes’ from the south and southeast,” the Ukrainian Air Force wrote on the Telegram messaging platform, adding that 22 ‘drones’ had been destroyed, a total of 25 launched.
In July, after an agreement on grains that would allow Ukraine to safely export through the Black Sea was suspended, Russia intensified its attacks on the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions of southern Ukraine, where the ports are located. this trade.
In August, the first Ukrainian cargo ship to pass through the Black Sea, despite the Russian blockade, arrived in Istanbul, Turkey.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said another two ships had passed through the “temporary grain corridor” in the Black Sea created by Kiev.
Source: DN
