Russia-Ukraine war live: strikes on Odesa leave three injured; Zelenskiy promises justice
Odesa strikes leave three injured
Ukraine’s city of Odesa has endured another night of Russian drone and missile attacks, the latest of which have left at least three people injured, according to local officials.
The governor of the region on the Black Sea said falling rocket fragment had resulted in fires breaking out.
“Windows in buildings were blown out by the blast wave,” Oleh Kiper wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Ukraine’s armed forces command in the south said that its air defence forces destroyed all 15 drones and eight Kalibr-type sea-based missiles that Russia launched at the port.
The nearby port city of Mykolaiv was also targeted, with air alarms sounding throughout the night.
Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port and naval base, has been repeatedly attacked with missiles and drones since Moscow last month pulled out of a UN backed agreement that allowed grain to be safely shipped from Ukraine’s ports.
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In July, Russia halted participation in the Black Sea grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export agricultural produce via the Black Sea. Moscow said that it deemed all ships heading to Ukrainian waters to be potentially carrying weapons.
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On Sunday, Russia said its Vasily Bykov patrol ship had fired automatic weapons on the Palau-flagged Sukru Okan vessel after the ship’s captain failed to respond to a request to halt for an inspection.
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Russia said the vessel was making its way toward the Ukrainian port of Izmail. Refinitiv shipping data showed that the ship was currently near the coast of Bulgaria and heading toward the Romanian port of Sulina.
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“To forcibly stop the vessel, warning fire was opened from automatic weapons,” the Russian defence ministry said.
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The Russian military boarded the vessel with the help of a Ka-29 helicopter, the ministry said. “After the inspection group completed its work onboard, the Sukru Okan continued on its way to the port of Izmail.”
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A Turkish defence ministry official said he had heard an incident had taken place involving a ship heading for Romania, and that Ankara was looking into it. Reuters could not immediately reach the vessel or its owners for comment.
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A senior adviser to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the incident was a “clear violation of international law of the sea, an act of piracy and a crime against civilian vessels of a third country in the waters of other states.”
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The adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted that “Ukraine will draw all the necessary conclusions and choose the best possible response”.
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Seven people including a 23-day-old baby girl were killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on Sunday, the country’s internal affairs ministry said.
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Artillery shelling in the village of Shiroka Balka, on the banks of the Dnipro River, killed a family – a husband, wife, 12-year-old boy and the 23-day-old girl – and another resident.
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Two men were killed in the neighbouring village of Stanislav, where a woman was also wounded.
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The attack on Kherson province followed Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar’s comments on Saturday attempting to quell rumours that Ukrainian forces had landed on the occupied left (east) bank of the Dnipro in the Kherson region.
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“Again, the expert hype around the left bank in the Kherson region began. There are no reasons for excitement,” she said.
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Kherson’s regional governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Sunday that three people had been wounded in Russian attacks on the province on Saturday.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian military officials said on Saturday evening that Kyiv’s forces had made progress in the south, claiming some success near a key village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and capturing other unspecified territories.
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Ukraine’s general staff said they had “partial success” around the tactically important Robotyne area in the Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian stronghold that Ukraine needs to retake in order to continue pushing south towards Melitopol.
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“There are liberated territories. The defence forces are working,” Gen Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukraine’s southern forces, said of the southern front.
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Battles in recent weeks have taken place on multiple points along the more than 1,000km (600mile) frontline as Ukraine wages a counteroffensive with western-supplied weapons and western-trained troops against the Russian forces who invaded nearly 18 months ago.
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Ukrainian troops have made only incremental gains since launching a counteroffensive in early June.
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Odesa was hit by two waves of attacks overnight: a total of 15 drones, and 8 Kalibr missiles, according to the governor of the local region.
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Oleg Kiper says that Ukrainian air defences “destroyed everything.”
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As a result of the downing of the rockets that the Russians aimed at the centre of Odesa, debris damaged a dormitory of one of the educational institutions, a residential building and a supermarket.
The blast wave knocked out windows in several buildings and damaged cars parked nearby. Fires broke out at three facilities.”\n
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Three employees of the supermarket were injured, two of whom have been hospitalised.
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Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy promised justice after Russian shelling killed seven people – including a 22-day-old infant – and wounded at least 22 others Kherson on Sunday.
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Local officials in the southern region, which Kyiv liberated part of last year, have declared a day of mourning for Monday.
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Five people were killed in the shelling on the village of Shyroka Balka, including a family of four. Two other people, including the pastor of a church, were killed in the neighbouring village of Stanislav.
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Later in the evening on Sunday, the local Kherson government said a new airstrike and artillery shelling had injured a 31-year-old woman and a man and damaged at least 12 houses in the town of Bilozerka. It also said three guided aerial bombs had damaged several houses in the village of Odradokamianka.
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In his nightly address, Zelenskiy said that by 6 pm there had been 17 reports of shelling in Kherson region alone on Sunday, as well as incidents in the regions of Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Donbas, Kharkiv, and in border areas in northeast Ukraine.
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“There is no day when Russian evil does not receive our entirely just response,” he said, adding that he would “not leave any of Russia’s crimes unanswered.”
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Ukraine’s city of Odesa has endured another night of Russian drone and missile attacks, the latest of which have left at least three people injured, according to local officials.
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The governor of the region on the Black Sea said falling rocket fragment had resulted in fires breaking out.
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“Windows in buildings were blown out by the blast wave,” Oleh Kiper wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
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Ukraine’s armed forces command in the south said that its air defence forces destroyed all 15 drones and eight Kalibr-type sea-based missiles that Russia launched at the port.
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The nearby port city of Mykolaiv was also targeted, with air alarms sounding throughout the night.
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Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port and naval base, has been repeatedly attacked with missiles and drones since Moscow last month pulled out of a UN backed agreement that allowed grain to be safely shipped from Ukraine’s ports.
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