Russian strikes on the port of Odessa, crucial for the agreement on the export of cereals

Railway infrastructure and a military airfield have been targeted by Russian strikes in central Ukraine.

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Russian missiles targeted the port of Odessa on the Black Sea on Saturday July 23, Ukraine announced. The strikes come the day after kyiv and Moscow signed an agreement to allow the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports blocked by the war.

“The enemy attacked the port of Odessa with Kalibr-type cruise missiles. Two missiles were shot down by air defense”, announced a spokesman for the administration of the Odessa region, in a statement posted on social networks. kyiv has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of having “spit in the face” of the UN and Turkey by bombing the port of Odessa, claiming that Moscow would assume “full responsibility” of the failure of the agreement on grain exports signed the day before in Istanbul.

In addition, at least three people, including a soldier, were killed when Russian missiles fired on railway infrastructure and a military airfield in central Ukraine on Saturday, the governor of Kirovograd announced. Russian strikes on central Ukraine have resumed after a lull in fighting. In a statement posted earlier on social media, Andriy Raikovych, head of the Kirovograd region, said 13 Russian cruise missiles launched from the sea fell near the town of Kropyvnytskyi located in the Kirovograd region.

“Infrastructure facilities [situées] outside the regional center [la ville de Kropyvnytskyi] were targeted, in particular the Kanatove military airfield and a facility linked to Ukrainian railways”, said the head of the Kirovograd region. The city of Kropyvnytskyi had before the Russian invasion about 220,000 people. It is located about 300 km south of kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.


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