Russia bombed the port of Odessa on Wednesday coinciding with a visit from Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakisand the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, attack that left five dead.
The war between Ukraine and Russia is still present, kyiv intensified its actions in the Russian rear, after an election official was murdered by the explosion of your vehicle.
How was the attack that Zelensky was saved from?
“At the end (of the visit) we heard the sound of air raid sirens and explosions very close to us. We didn’t have time to take shelter,” said Mitsotakis, who referred to what happened as an “impressive experience.” To the Russians “They don’t care if (the targets) are military or civilian”Zelensky declared.
“We confirm the attack against the port infrastructure of the city of Odessa. We confirm the death of five people. “There are also injured people,” said to AFP Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk
He Russian Defense Ministry claimed responsibility for missile attack which hit “a hangar in a commercial port area of Odessa where unmanned surface vehicles were being prepared for combat use by the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Russia’s rearguard
For its part, kyiv intensifies its actions in the Russian rearwith the alleged murder on Wednesday in the occupied Berdiansk territory of an electoral official who collaborated with the Russian authorities, killed by the explosion of her vehicle.
According to the researchers, “a homemade explosive device was placed under the vehicle“. The local manager of the Russian occupation in this region of southern Ukraine, Evgeny Balitsky, denounced on Telegram “a terrorist act” and “an attempt to intimidate” a week before the Russian presidential elections that will be held from March 15 to 17, also in the occupied territories. Several leaders of the Russian occupation or collaborators in Ukraine and annexed Crimea were killed or wounded in the attacks and attacks attributed to kyiv in the last two years.
About 600 km to the north, in the Russian region of Kursk, bordering Ukraine, an oil depot was set on fire on Wednesday after an attack by Ukrainian drones, an increasingly common type of operation.
Ukraine’s strategy against Russia
For several months now, part of the Ukrainian military strategy consists of attacking its adversary far from the front line to disrupt the logistics of the Russian army, which supplies its troops with ammunition and fuel through the border regions.
“A Ukrainian drone attack in the Zheleznogorsk district caused a fire in a fuel and lubricant depot,” said Kursk Regional Governor Roman Starovoit. stating that the attack left no victims.
Since the beginning of the Russian assault on Ukraine, in February 2022, kyiv regularly attacks territories under Moscow control and in recent weeks it has focused particularly on oil depots and refineries.
Russia’s attacks in Ukraine
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Wednesday that a dozen regions in Ukraine were targeted by Russian drone strikes overnight, leaving the at least seven injured in the city of Sumy (northeast). Russia attacked “with five S-300 and 42 Shahed guided missiles”, indicated this source, in reference to the Iranian-made drones used by Moscow.
On the ground, the Ukrainian Army General Staff published a video showing fortified trenches recently built “on the second line of defense” in the Avdiivka area (east), in response to recent comments about the weakness of the Ukrainian defense lines or even their absence in some places.
The meeting of the IAEA director and President Vladimir Putin
Besides, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Argentine Rafael Grossi is visiting Russiawhere he will meet with the President Vladimir Putin for the first time since 2022 and with Alexei Likhachev, jhead of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom.
From Sochi, in the southwest of the country, Grossi warned Russia not to reactivate the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Moscow forces in southern Ukraine.
Source: Ambito
