Russian missiles strike Odesa and Kryvyi RihMore now on the Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight, via Reuters: an overnight Russian air strike on the key Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.
A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.
Moscow has intensified its air attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, including Izmail and Reni, after it quit a grain deal in July that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains.
Separately on Tuesday, a Russian missile strike also damaged a local enterprise in the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, its mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Natalia Humeniuk, spokesperson for Ukraine’s military in the south, has said that the Orlivka-Isaccea border crossing point between Ukraine and Romania is closed due to the overnight Russian drone attack. Suspilne reports that she told Radio Svoboda that drones did not cross into Romania.
Polish experts have confirmed that the missile that killed two people at a grain facility in southern Poland in November was fired by Ukraine, Rzeczpospolita daily reported, citing sources.
The explosion of the missile in Nato-member Poland fuelled fears that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a wider conflict by triggering the alliance’s mutual defence clause, but at the time Warsaw and Nato said that they believed that it was a Ukrainian stray, easing worries about escalation.
Reuters reports that sources with knowledge of the investigation told Rzeczpospolita that Poland had established that the missile that landed in the village of Przewodów was an S 300 5-W-55 air-defence missile fired from Ukrainian territory.
A Polish border guard official carries a photograph of Bogusław Wos, one of two Polish men killed in a missile explosion, ahead of his funeral in Przewodów in November 2022. Photograph: AP“This rocket has a range of 75 km to 90 km,” the newspaper cited a source as saying. “At that time, the Russian positions were in a place from which no Russian missile could reach Przewodów.”
Rzeczpospolita reported that the Ukrainian side has not made any material available to Polish investigators. Ukraine has denied that one of its missiles had landed in Poland.
The development comes as relations between neighbouring Poland and Ukraine have become tense, with anger over Ukrainian agricultural imports becoming a campaigning factor in next month’s election in Poland.
Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has rather sarcastically castigated US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller for deflecting a question about the appearance of a Ukrainian veteran of a Nazi unit in the Canadian parliament. Miller had said that he was attending the UN on Friday.
Zakharova has posted to her Telegram channel to say:
Everyone was at the UN on Friday, Matthew. And everyone saw how nazism triumphed in Canada. The UN has a lot of problems, but the internet works great there.
Members of Canada’s House of Commons were encouraged to join in a standing ovation for a man who fought against Russia with a Nazi military unit accused of war crimes during the second world war.
The assembly’s speaker, Anthony Rota, called lawmakers’ attention to 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, whom he described as a “war hero”. Images from the Canadian parliament showed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, standing and applauding Hunka, in scenes widely condemned by Jewish groups.
In Russia, Tass reports that seven settlements in the Kursk region have lost power after a Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on to an electricity sub-station. It cited the Telegram channel of regional governor Roman Starovoyt. He reported no casualties.
Russian sources on Telegram, citing the occupying authorities, claim that Ukraine fired 32 shells into the occupied portion of Kherson region overnight. Russia claimed to annex Kherson from Ukraine in late 2022, despite only partially controlling the territory. There are no details of casualties.
Odesa’s regional authority has issued two handout images showing the scenes there in the aftermath of another overnight attack on the port city.
Rescuers working to put out a fire after an overnight attack on seaport infrastructure in the Odesa region. Photograph: Odesa Regional State Administration/HANDOUT HANDOUT/EPAAt least two people were injured in the attack on Odesa region. Photograph: Odesa Regional State Administration/HANDOUT HANDOUT/EPASuspilne, citing the foreign ministry, reports that the Korabelnyi district in the city of Kherson has been struck. It writes that “high-rise buildings and private houses were damaged. Information about the victims is being clarified.”
This is Martin Belam taking over the live blog in London. You can contact me at [email protected].
Russian missiles strike Odesa and Kryvyi RihMore now on the Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight, via Reuters: an overnight Russian air strike on the key Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.
A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.
Moscow has intensified its air attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, including Izmail and Reni, after it quit a grain deal in July that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains.
Separately on Tuesday, a Russian missile strike also damaged a local enterprise in the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, its mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Ukraine drones downed in Belgorod, Kursk and Crimea says MoscowRussian air defence units also repelled several Ukraine drone attacks over the Belgorod and Kursk regions late on Monday, destroying at least 11 drones in total, Russia’s defence ministry said.
The ministry in several separate statements on its Telegram messaging app said that seven drones were downed over the Belgorod region and four over the Kursk region.
The ministry provided no information on possible damage or injuries from the attacks. Moscow rarely discloses details, unless civilian or non-military infrastructure is damaged.
Russian strikes on Odesa overnightReuters: A overnight Russian air strike on the key Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.
A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.
Missile strikes business in Kryvyi Rih, central UkraineOur top story this morning: A missile has hit a business in the city of Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defence Council said on Telegram.
“In the morning, the occupiers attacked Kryvyi Rih with a missile. They hit one of the city’s enterprises. All emergency services are on site. The consequences are being clarified,” he said. There were no casualties reported.
Opening summaryWelcome back to our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. This is Helen Sullivan with the latest.
Our top story this morning: A missile has hit a business in the city of Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defence Council said on Telegram. “In the morning, the occupiers attacked Kryvyi Rih with a missile. They hit one of the city’s enterprises. All emergency services are on site. The consequences are being clarified.”
Russian air defence units also repelled several Ukraine drone attacks over the Belgorod and Kursk regions late on Monday, destroying at least 11 drones in total, Russia’s defence ministry said. The ministry in several separate statements on its Telegram messaging app said that seven drones were downed over the Belgorod region and four over the Kursk region. The ministry provided no information on possible damage or injuries from the attacks. Moscow rarely discloses details, unless civilian or non-military infrastructure is damaged.
Elsewhere:
Ukraine has claimed it killed Adm Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, along with 33 other officers, in one of Kyiv’s boldest attacks yet on the occupied peninsula of Crimea. The Ukrainian military said Friday’s attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials.
Russian airstrikes and shelling killed six people in Ukraine and caused “significant damage” to infrastructure at the Black Sea port of Odesa and to grain storage facilities, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
Fragments of a missile were found in a village in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region on Monday after a Russian aerial attack on neighbouring Ukraine overnight, regional authorities said. The pro-Moscow separatist region broke away after a brief civil war after the collapse of the Soviet Union and is not recognised internationally. “An S-300 missile warhead … fell in [the village of] Chitcani, near a house, and got stuck in the ground,” Oleg Belyakov, the co-chair of a commission in charge of peacekeeping operations in Transnistria, told Russia’s state-run Tass news agency.
A UN investigation into human rights violations in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion warned that evidence indicates the use of torture by Russian forces has been “widespread and systematic”.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has confirmed that his army had taken delivery of US Abrams battle tanks, boosting Kyiv’s forces in their slow-moving counteroffensive against Russian troops.
Poland raised the prospect of providing Ukraine with older weapons from its country’s arsenal after they are replaced with more modern equivalents, in an apparent attempt to defuse a row that caused relations to sour last week.
Hungary will not support Ukraine on any issue in international affairs until Kyiv restores “the former rights for ethnic Hungarians on its territory”, the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, told his country’s parliament.
The EU’s trade commissioner has warned that China’s position on the war in Ukraine could endanger its relationship with Europe, while calling for a more balanced economic relationship with China and noting an EU trade deficit of nearly $425bn.