President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Moscow of harming international meals safety amid a spate of assaults on Odesa’s port.
Printed On 9 Aug 2026
An in a single day Russian assault on an condominium constructing has killed two folks in Ukraine’s northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv as Moscow additionally retains up its assaults on Ukrainian vitality infrastructure.
Russian forces hit a excessive rise within the Saltivskyi district, killing a 50-year-old man and a 66-year-old man, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Telegram. A minimum of 21 folks had been wounded.
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Photographs of the scene shared by Syniehubov confirmed a gaping gap throughout 4 storeys of the constructing as thick smoke billowed out of it.
Within the southern area of Kherson, Russian artillery killed a 61-year-old girl within the Berislavsky district early on Sunday, based on the regional prosecutor’s workplace.
And within the Dnipropetrovsk area’s metropolis of Pavlohrad, an “completely depraved” assault close to a shopping center wounded 9 folks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X. The injured included 4 youngsters.
There have been additionally assaults on the Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia and Donetsk areas, Zelenskyy stated.
In Russia, the TASS information company reported that Ukrainian drone assaults killed three civilians in a single day in Belgorod.
Assaults on Odesa
Moscow has additionally taken goal on the southwestern area of Odesa, a frequent site of lethal assaults.
Russian forces launched a barrage of ballistic, antiship and anti-radar missiles in a single day in addition to greater than 200 Shahed drones, Ukraine’s air power wrote on Telegram.
Missile and drone assaults had been recorded at 22 areas and so had been the remnants of downed missiles at six websites.
Russia’s TASS information company additionally reported assaults on gasoline, lubricants and army tools depots in Odesa’s port.
Zelenskyy stated the assaults focused Odesa’s vitality sector and restore work was below approach to restore energy. A minimum of eight folks had been injured as residential buildings and the port sustained harm.
“That is, specifically, how Russia is systematically waging warfare in opposition to international meals safety,” the Ukrainian chief stated, referring to the Odesa port’s function in exporting grain world wide.
Assaults on the port killed 28 people within the first three weeks of July alone, Governor Oleh Kiper beforehand stated.
Russia, in the meantime, struck two oil refineries within the northeastern area of Sumy, the Reuters information company reported.
