Russia has struck multiple targets in two Ukrainian port cities in response to an earlier attack—for which it blames Kyiv—on a bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland.
“Last night, the Russian Armed Forces delivered multiple retaliatory strikes by seaborne high-precision weapons against sites where terrorist attacks were being plotted,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a July 18 statement.
According to the ministry, the strikes hit production facilities near Odesa, which it claimed had been used to build seaborne attack drones.
It also struck several fuel depots in Odesa and the nearby city of Mykolaiv.
Commercial vessels that are part of the Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 31, 2022. (Umit Bektas/Reuters/File Photo)
“All designated targets were destroyed,” the ministry stated….