Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odessa -- less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there -- had hit only military targets.
"In the seaport in the city of Odessa, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse with Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the U.S. to the Kyiv regime," ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a daily briefing.
Command spokeswoman Nataliya Humenyuk said that no grain storage facilities were hit. Turkey's defence minister, however, said he had had reports from Ukrainian authorities that one missile struck a grain silo while another landed nearby, although neither affected loading at Odessa's docks. The agreement, obtained by The Associated Press, committed both Kyiv and Moscow to refraining from strikes on the three Black Sea ports.
The U.K. military on Sunday morning reported in its daily intelligence update that Russia was making "minimal progress" in its ongoing Donbas offensive, which it said remained small-scale and focused on the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. "Also, as a result of the scattering of munitions and their fragments, fires occurred in open areas in the city," said Vitaly Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region.-- A Washington-based think tank says Ukrainian forces are likely preparing to launch or have launched a counteroffensive in the Kherson region.
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