Two injured following drone assault on Odesa days earlier than grain deal talks
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wo individuals have been admitted to hospital after a Russian drone barrage in opposition to port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa area, officers have stated.
The assault comes a day earlier than Russian President Vladimir Putin is because of meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to debate the resumption of meals shipments from Ukraine beneath a Black Sea grain settlement Moscow broke off from in July.
Russian forces fired 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones alongside the Danube River within the early hours of Sunday, 22 of which had been shot down by air defences, the Ukrainian air power stated on Telegram.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of employees, Andriy Yermak, described the assault as a part of a Russian drive “to provoke a food crisis and hunger in the world”.
Moscow has not commented on the assault.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, two individuals had been killed and two others harm throughout Russian shelling on Sunday on the village of Vuhledar within the Donetsk space.
Artillery hearth hit eight settlements throughout the area, Ukraine’s National Police wrote on Telegram.
Ukrainian prosecutors additionally stated on Sunday that they’ve opened a battle crimes investigation into the dying of a police officer killed by Russian shelling in town of Seredyna-Buda on Saturday afternoon.
Two different cops and one civilian had been harm throughout the assault, which hit Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy area.