Russian drones focused Ukrainian ports within the southern Odesa and Danube river areas, setting one grain storage facility alight, Ukrainian army and native authorities stated on Wednesday.
The assaults in a single day have been the most recent in collection in current weeks focusing on port infrastructure on the Danube, as Moscow seeks to cease Ukraine shifting grain throughout to the Romanian port of Constanta, having earlier stop a deal that had allowed Kyiv to ship out grain through the Black Sea.
“The enemy hit grain storage facilities and a production and transhipment complex in the Danube region. A fire broke out in the warehouses and was quickly contained. Firefighters continue to work,” the Ukrainian army stated in a submit on the Telegram messaging app.
The army printed images exhibiting piles of grain beneath the burnt and wrecked shell of the storage facility.
Odesa governor Oleh Kiper stated the assault on the area lasted for 3 hours and the Ukrainian air pressure had destroyed 9 Russian drones.
“Unfortunately, there were hits to the production and transhipment complexes where a fire broke out… The damage includes grain storage facilities,” Kiper stated on Telegram.
Ukraine’s Danube ports accounted for round 1 / 4 of grain exports earlier than Russia pulled out of a U.N.-backed deal to supply protected passage for the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea in July.
The ports have since grow to be the primary route out, with grain additionally despatched on barges to Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta for cargo onwards.
Global grain costs rose earlier this month, when Russia attacked Izmail – Ukraine’s fundamental inland port throughout the Danube River from Romania, and the port of Reni.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
