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One person was killed and grain infrastructure damaged by a Russian drone attack that damaged port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, its governor said on Thursday.
The attack targeted the Izmail port district near the Danube River, which has been key to exporting Ukrainian grain in recent months, and lasted for several hours overnight, Oleg Kiper said.
While most of the drones were shot down, some got through, damaging a storage building, an elevator and trucks, he added.
Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a key artery for the country’s huge export volumes of grain as Russia blockades the Black Sea since invading its neighbour in February 2022.
Moscow hit Danube port infrastructure with waves of drone attacks in August and September, but the latest overnight attack came after a recent lull.
The latest strike was the first on Danube facilities since November 21.
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