2023-08-02 09:00:00
Drone night strikes | Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube affected
Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Danube, crucial for grain exports, was hit by overnight Russian drone strikes, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said on Wednesday. “The enemy attacked port facilities and industrial infrastructure on the Danube”said the prosecutor’s office on Telegram. “As a result of the strikes, an elevator, grain sheds, cargo terminal tanks, warehouses and administrative premises were damaged or destroyed”he added.
Two small Ukrainian river ports on the Danube, Reni and Izmail, in the Odessa region bordering Romania, have become the main exit route for Ukrainian agricultural products since Russia ended an agreement in July that allowed, despite the war, Kiev to export its grain. Since then, Moscow has multiplied its strikes once morest the Ukrainian port infrastructure.
The Ukrainian authorities, who give very little information and access to these ports because of their strategic nature, did not clearly say on Wednesday which sites had been affected overnight. However, it is the prosecutor’s office of Izmaïl which is in charge of the investigation, seeming to indicate that the destruction is located in this district. The prosecution also broadcast images of buildings and hangars devastated by attack drones.
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