US EditionRussian drone attack in Odesa region hits Danube port infrastructure
- Two people were hospitalized after a 3.5-hour Russian drone attack on a port in Ukraine's Odessa region. The Ukrainian air force shot down 22 of the 25 drones. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's chief of staff described the assault as part of a Russian drive to provoke a food crisis.
- The attack comes ahead of Russian President Putin's meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, where they will discuss the resumption of food shipments from Ukraine under a Black Sea grain agreement. Russia previously broke off from the agreement over claims of unfulfilled promises.
- In addition to the drone attack, there were shelling incidents in Ukraine, resulting in casualties. Ukrainian prosecutors have opened a war crimes investigation into the death of a police officer.
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Romania denies reports of being hit amid Russian drone attack on Ukrainian port
Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu on Monday (September 4) denied reports of Romanian territory being hit by Russian drones during an overnight air strike carried out on a Ukrainian port across the Danube River. "Of course, there is a risk because what happened there is very close to our borders," said Minister Odobescu, while speaking to the reporters on the sidelines of a visit to Berlin.
Russia attacks Ukraine with over 30 drones, damaging infrastructure
Russian forces launched 32 kamikaze drones at Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts overnight on Sept. 4, damaging industrial facilities and infrastructure.Ukraine’s military reported shooting down 23 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 drones, according to the Air Force.The drones were launched from Cape Chauda in occupied Crimea and Russia’s port town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk on the Azov Sea coast, the Air Force said.Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 17 out of…
Russia once again attacked Monday's Odessa region with drones on the night before. Moscow airports again halted work in the early hours of Monday morning.
On Monday, Russia launched an air strike on Izmail, a major port on the Danube in Ukraine from which grain exports take place. The attack comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, were due to hold talks about grain exports. Read all about the war in Ukraine and the situation in Russia here.
Russia strikes Ukraine grain exporting port ahead of Putin-Erdogan talks
Russia launched an overnight air attack on Ukraine's Izmail port, one of the country's major grain exporting ports. The attack occurred just hours before a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The air force of Ukraine urged residents to seek shelter after midnight. Russia had previously quit a grain export deal with Ukraine in July, citing obstacles to its own food and fertilizer exports.
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