Six persons were killed and eight injured in Wednesday’s Russian ballistic missile attack on the port infrastructure in the southern Odesa area of Ukraine, according to Odesa Regional Governor Oleh Kiper.
Kiper said on the Telegram messaging service that all of the injured were Ukrainian citizens. Four of them were seriously ill. According to Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba, the attack damaged the Shui Spirit, a container ship flying the Panamanian flag.
“An insidious enemy is trying to disrupt the work of the Ukrainian grain corridor, killing civilians and destroying infrastructure,” Kiper wrote in his post.
The attack on the port of Chornomorsk was the third in the region in the past four days.
Ukrainian officials said a Russian missile hit a Palau-flagged vessel in Odesa port on Monday, killing one Ukrainian national and injuring five foreign nationals.
And on Sunday, a Russian missile damaged a civilian Saint Kitts and Nevis-flagged vessel loaded with corn in the port of Pivdennyi.
Under a deal brokered by Turkey soon after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, ships carrying cargoes from Ukrainian ports operated without impediment for about a year before Russia pulled out of the agreement.
Vessels have since been using an alternative route, hugging Ukraine’s southwestern Black Sea coast through Romanian waters and on to Turkey.
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