According to International news, Russia struck Ukraine’s port of Odesa with missiles and drones on 18th July, a day after pulling out of a United Nations-backed deal to let Kyiv export grain.
Russia said it hit fuel storage facilities in Odesa and a plant making seaborne drones there, as part of “mass revenge strikes” in retaliation for attacks by Ukraine that knocked out its road bridge to the occupied Crimean peninsula.
Shortly after the bridge was hit on Monday, Moscow pulled out of the year-old UN-brokered grain export deal, although it denied the two events were linked.
As explained, Ukraine’s air force said six Kalibr missiles and 31 out of 36 drones were shot down, mostly over the coastal Odesa and Mykolaiv regions in the south.
Ukraine’s southern operational military command said falling debris and blast waves damaged several homes and unspecified port infrastructure in Odesa, with an elderly man injured at his residence. Local authorities in Mykolaiv, another port, described a serious fire there.
