Two individuals have been harm as Russia launched a three-hour drone assault on Odesa and hit infrastructure on the Danube river yesterday.

Ukraine’s air defence techniques shot down 22 of the 25 drones Moscow launched within the early hours of yesterday, Kyiv chiefs claimed.

The Danube has change into the primary route for exporting grain for the reason that collapse of the Black Sea cope with Russia earlier in the summertime.

Ukraine has accused Moscow of focusing on world meals safety with a string of assaults on ports after it withdrew from the initiative.

But Russia claims Ukraine is utilizing ports and ships for army functions. Andriy Yermak, chief of employees for President Volodymyr Zelensky, mentioned: “Russian ­terrorists continue to attack port infrastructure in the hope of provoking a food crisis and famine.”

Officials mentioned a hearth that resulted from the assault on “civil infrastructure of the Danube” was shortly put out. The Russian military confirmed it hit the port of Reni.

It mentioned: “At night, the Russian army carried out a group drone strike on fuel storage facilities used to ­supply military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the port of Reni, in the Odesa region. All designated targets were hit.”

Meanwhile, a person, 43, and his spouse, 42, have been killed in air strikes on a residential space within the Donetsk area.

Russian forces additionally focused Kramatorsk close to the frontline with rockets, inflicting harm to buildings and a cemetery. Photos emerged of 1 unexploded rocket wedged in a highway in Donetsk metropolis yesterday.