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An overnight Russian missile and drone attack has injured one woman and damaged port infrastructure in Odesa, the governor of the southern Ukrainian region said on Monday.
A fire broke out in a non-residential high-rise in Odesa city following the attack but was extinguished, Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.
The Ukrainian military said that grain stores were destroyed in the attack, news agency AFP reported.
The Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine said Russia directed 19 drones and 2 Onyx supersonic missiles at Odesa, and fired 12 Kalibr missiles.
“Onyx missiles destroyed granaries. But people were not hurt,” they said.
Russia was apparently “trying to test out the density of the air defense,” Nataliya Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian southern military command, said on Telegram.
“They understand that port infrastructure is a priority for our region, and that it is reliably protected. However, that is why the attack that occurred tonight was both massive and by combined means.” she added.
Gumenyuk said one of the grain stores struck was empty.
“Nevertheless, hitting grain deal-related infrastructure,” she said, was a Russian “priority.”
Moscow has stepped up its attacks on Ukraine’s grain exporting infrastructure since Russia pulled out of a UN-brokered deal allowing safe grain shipments via the Black Sea.
dvv/fb (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
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