Ukraine shoots down 26 Russian drones as Putin targets ports in overnight attack | World News

An overnight Russian air strike on the Ukrainian grain exporting port of Izmail injured two people and damaged infrastructure, it has been reported.

A port building, storage facilities and more than 30 trucks and cars were damaged in the attack, which lasted more than two hours, Oleh Kiper, the governor of the Odesa region said on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian military reported shooting down 26 of the 38 Iranian-made attack drones it said were launched by Russia.

Moscow has intensified its air attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube River, including Izmail and Reni, after it quit a grain deal in July that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains.

Separately on Tuesday, a Russian missile strike also damaged a local enterprise in the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

A Ukraine drone attack on Russia’s Kursk resulted in power being cut off to about seven settlements in the region, the region’s governor Roman Starovoyt said on Tuesday.

He said there were no reports of injuries.

Earlier, Russia’s defence ministry said its air defence systems had destroyed one Ukraine-launched drone over the Kursk at around 5.30am.

That followed reports of multiple drones being shot down over the region that borders Ukraine on Monday.

Yesterday Ukraine’s port city of Odessa was hit by Russian missiles in a blitz as the city’s large Jewish population marked the holy day of Yom Kippur.

Fighters are believed to have struck the Hotel Odessa – a military target used as a training centre – with local reports that the building is caught up in flames.

Other reports describe a ‘continuous attack’ on the Black Sea port lasting for over an hour, as Russia fired an arsenal of shahed missiles.

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