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'Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed': Odesa buckles under Russian bombs

More than 800 air raid alerts occurred in Odesa in 2025, causing over a month of lost port operation and threatening vital grain exports, officials said.

  • Russia has intensified its attacks on Odesa, Ukraine's southern port city, tripling the number of missile and drone strikes over the last year in an attempt to cut Ukraine off from the sea.
  • Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed, said Viktor Berestenko, looking out at the cranes towering over the Black Sea horizon.
  • In 2023, Moscow walked away from a UN and Turkey-brokered deal that facilitated the safe passage of Ukrainian agricultural exports across the Black Sea, prompting Kyiv to set up an alternative route hugging the western coastline.
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'Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed': Odesa buckles under Russian bombs

Looking out at the blue and yellow cranes towering over the Black Sea horizon, Viktor Berestenko worries about the relentless Russian bombardment of Odesa, Ukraine's southern port city.

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KULR-TV broke the news in Billings, United States on Friday, February 27, 2026.
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