Russia Conducts Four Consecutive Days of Airstrikes on Ukraine's Odesa... 2 Injured and Grain Loss Reported

Ukraine authorities announced on the 21st (local time) that Russia has conducted airstrikes on Odesa, Ukraine's largest port city, for four consecutive days.

Oleh Kiper, governor of Odesa, stated via Telegram that an agricultural company in the Odesa region was attacked by Russia, injuring two people. He said, "The grain terminal of the company was damaged," reporting losses of 100 tons of soybeans and 20 tons of barley.

Kiper explained that Russia launched Kalibr cruise missiles at low altitude over the Black Sea to evade air defense systems. Two missiles hit the grain storage, causing a fire, and another missile struck the company again during firefighting efforts, damaging rescue equipment as well.

A grain warehouse located in Odesa, southern Ukraine, was engulfed in flames on the 21st (local time) due to a missile attack by Russian forces.
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Major foreign media reported that the intensity of the attack on this day was relatively weaker compared to the airstrikes targeting southern port areas such as Odesa and Mykolaiv for three consecutive days until the previous day.

Since the attack on the Crimean Bridge, which connects the Crimean Peninsula?annexed forcibly by Russia in 2014?and mainland Russia on the 17th, Russia has abandoned the Black Sea Grain Initiative that guaranteed the safety of grain export ships in the Black Sea and has continued retaliatory airstrikes against Ukraine, including Odesa.

United Nations Secretary-General Ant?nio Guterres strongly condemned Russia's attacks on civilian infrastructure, but Russia has threatened to attack civilian vessels heading to Ukraine.

In response, Ukraine has attacked military training grounds in the Crimean Peninsula and issued warnings about risks to Russian ships, escalating clashes between the two countries in the Black Sea and southern Ukraine.

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