kyiv (EFE).- Russia attacked Odesa this morning with cruise missiles, causing damage to the city’s port infrastructure.
Odessa is one of the three Ukrainian ports that were included in the grain agreement that Moscow terminated on Monday.
“Last night Odessa was attacked with six Kalibr missiles from the Black Sea,” the representative of the region’s Military Administration, Sergui Bratchuk, reported on Tuesday, explaining that all the missiles were shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses.
However, according to Bratchuk, “the remains of the downed missiles and the explosions” from the interceptions “caused damage to objects in the port infrastructure and several houses.”
In one of those houses a man was injured.
appeal to the UN
This new missile attack against the port takes place hours after the Kremlin announced that it will not extend the so-called grain agreement, signed by Russia with Turkey and the UN and by which Moscow promised to allow the output of Ukrainian grain from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, including Odessa.
The agreement was signed in July last year to ensure food security around the world. Ukraine is one of the largest international exporters of grain.
The Russian military invasion of the Black Sea has compromised its navigability, which is dominated by Russian forces.
Ukraine has asked Turkey and the UN to continue guaranteeing the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea without Russia in case Moscow does not rectify.