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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today that Russian forces hit a Ukrainian military vessel in the port of Odessa in Ukraine with high-precision missiles, as reported by Reuters.
“Kalibr missiles destroyed military infrastructure in the port of Odesa, with a high-precision strike,” wrote Maria Zakharova on her account on the Telegram application, responding to the statement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said that these strikes destroy the possibility of a dialogue or of an agreement with Moscow.
According to Zakharova, the missiles destroyed a Ukrainian “military vessel”. She did not provide clarifications or evidence for her statements.
In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry noted that “a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse of US-supplied Harpoon anti-ship missiles were destroyed by long-range precision naval missiles in the Odessa seaport at the site of a ship repair factory.”
After the strikes in Odesa, yesterday Saturday, Ukraine accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “spitting in the faces” of the UN and Turkey and jeopardizing the implementation of the agreement signed a day earlier to resume grain exports that have blocked in Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea because of the war.
It is recalled that yesterday the Minister of Defense of Turkey stated that Russian officials told Ankara that Moscow had “nothing to do” with the strikes in the port of Odessa in Ukraine, but without giving more details about his communication.
“In our contact with Russia, the Russians told us that they had absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they are looking into the matter very closely and in detail,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in a statement yesterday.
The agreement signed on Friday in Istanbul between Russia and Ukraine mainly provides for the establishment of “secure corridors” for the movement of commercial ships in the Black Sea, which Moscow and Kyiv pledge “not to attack”, according to an official of the United States.
It is expected to allow the export of 20 to 25 million tons of grain stranded in Ukraine and thereby limit the risk of a global food crisis.
Source: Capital
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