Ukrainian forces shot down 17 Russian drones in the southern region of Odessa, Ukraine, in an attack that damaged several buildings in the district of the port city of Izmail, the local governor announced Monday.
“Our air defense forces shot down 17 drones,” Oleg Kiper claimed, admitting that other Russian drones managed to hit the targets.
“In several places in the Izmail district, warehouses and production buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial companies were damaged,” the governor explained on the Telegram messaging platform.
“There were several fires [em infraestruturas civis] in the territory due to falling debris” after the demolition of the drones, Kiper added, specifying that the flames were later extinguished.
The governor said the attack, which lasted three and a half hours and caused no fatalities or injuries, was launched using Iranian-made kamikaze Shahed drones.
The Operational Command of the Army for the South of Ukraine, for its part, described as a “great night attack” carried out with drones against “civilian infrastructures in the area of the [rio] Danube”.
The river port of Izmail has become one of the main outlet routes for Ukrainian agricultural products since Moscow withdrew from the grain export deal in July.
Overnight from Saturday to Sunday, 25 Russian drones attacked industrial facilities on the Danube, injuring two, according to the Ukrainian Public Ministry.
The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, claimed to have carried out an attack with these devices against the port of Reni, also in the Odessa region, next to the border with Romania, a NATO member country. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
The attack targeted “fuel depots used to resupply 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, saying Ukraine’s grain export facilities serve to supply food to the world and prevent price escalation.
Canadian Denise Brown recalled that “unfortunately this is not an isolated case”, referring to the “repeated attacks against Ukrainian ports” carried out by Moscow since it decided to end its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
This agreement, in which Moscow, kyiv, Ankara and the United Nations participated, allowed maritime traffic from the southern Ukrainian ports to be blocked by the Russian fleet in the region.
Source: TSF
