Ukrainian forces shot down 17 Russian drones in the south of Ukraine’s Odessa region in an attack that damaged several buildings in the district of the port city of Izmail, the local governor announced on Monday.
‘Seventeen drones were shot down by our air defense forces’said Oleg Kiper, admitting that other Russian unmanned aerial vehicles managed to reach the targets.
“Warehouses and production buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial enterprises were damaged at several locations in the Izmail district”explained the governor on the Telegram messaging platform.
“Several fires broke out [em infraestruturas civis] in the area due to falling debris” after the drones were shot down, Kiper added, specifying that the flames were subsequently extinguished.
The governor said the attack, which lasted three and a half hours and caused no deaths or injuries, was launched using Shahed kamikaze drones manufactured by Iran.
The army’s Operational Command for Southern Ukraine, for its part, described a “major night attack” carried out with drones on “civil infrastructure in the territory of Ukraine.” [rio] Danube”.
The river port of Izmail has become one of the main outflow routes for Ukrainian agricultural products since Moscow pulled out of the grain export deal in July.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, 25 Russian drones attacked industrial facilities on the Danube on the night from Saturday to Sunday, injuring two.
The Russian Ministry of Defense, in turn, claimed to have carried out an attack with these devices on the port of Reni, also in the Odessa region, next to the border with Romania, a member state of NATO (English acronym of the Treaty Organization). of the North Atlantic).
The attack targeted “fuel depots used to supply the military equipment of the Ukrainian army in the port of Reni,” the ministry said.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine condemned Sunday’s attacks, noting that Ukraine’s grain export facilities serve to supply food to the entire world and prevent price escalation.
Canada’s Denise Brown recalled that “unfortunately this is not an isolated case”, referring to the “repeated attacks on Ukrainian ports” Moscow has carried out since the country decided to end its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
This agreement, involving Moscow, Kiev, Ankara and the United Nations, allowed maritime traffic from Ukraine’s southern ports blocked by the Russian fleet in the region.
Source: DN
