Many people were injured in the Russian missile attack on Odessa port, the region's governor said, on the 150th day of the Russian occupation and a day after the signing of the agreement to unblock Black Sea ports.

"Unfortunately, several people were injured.

The port infrastructure was damaged," Maksim Marchenko said in a video message on social networks, but did not specify the number in question.

The consequences of the strike on the port in #Odesa were shown in #Ukraine, reports "Suspіlne Odesa".

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Russia denies responsibility for the attack, which was carried out on the 150th day of the war and a day after Russia, Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkey signed an agreement in Istanbul to unblock Black Sea ports to allow grain exports. Ukrainians important to mitigate the rise in food prices and the threat of hunger in poor countries.

The agreement should enable the export of 20 to 25 million tons of grain blocked in Ukraine, reports

theguardian

.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two countries that supply 30 percent of grain to world markets, triggered a boom in wheat and oil, with the African continent, which is heavily dependent on these products, being the hardest hit.

Agence France Presse provides an overview of the situation in Ukraine on the 150th day of the war, according to information from journalists in the country, official statements from Russian and Ukrainian officials, as well as Western sources, analysts and international organizations.



The central part of Ukraine

Three people were killed when 13 Russian missiles hit a military airport and railway infrastructure in Ukraine's central Kirovohrad region on Saturday, local governor Andriy Rajkovich said.

Two security guards at the substation and a Ukrainian soldier were killed and nine people were injured.

northeastern

Pro-Russian separatists in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) in eastern Ukraine have signed a cooperation agreement with the occupation authorities of Kharkiv (northeast), which confirms the Kremlin's "readiness to annex the Kharkiv region to Russia."

Federation", writes

the American Institute for the Study of War

(ISW).

East

Russian forces continue to bombard the Donetsk region (east), which has been at the center of their military offensive in recent months.

The Ukrainian president's office reported on Friday "five deaths and ten injuries in the last 24 hours".

Two Americans were killed in Donbass, the State Department told AFP on Saturday, without specifying whether they were combatants.

Since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, large numbers of foreign volunteers, mostly from Europe, have come to Ukraine to help Kiev's forces.

Their exact number is difficult to estimate.

Russia, which regularly criticizes the presence of these fighters on Ukrainian soil, claimed in mid-June that it had killed almost 2,000 "foreign mercenaries" since the conflict began.

south

According to the British Defense Minister, Ukrainian forces are continuing their offensive against the Russians in the Kherson region, west of the Dnieper.

"Russian supply chains west of the Dnieper are increasingly at risk," while a bridge damaged by new Ukrainian bombings is important for Russian logistics in that sector, the ministry estimates.

/Telegraph/