Intense nighttime attacks on Ukraine

Ukrainian servicemen attend the funeral of US Army veteran and fellow comrade Nicholas Maimer. Pic/AP

Missiles and drones launched by Russia in an intense series of nation-wide nightime air attacks have damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine, including grain and oil terminals, and wounded at least 12 people, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.

The air raid targeted the southern port city of Odesa for a second night in a row, days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would halt its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which enabled crucial grain exports to the world, including many countries facing the threat of hunger.

"A difficult night of air attacks for all of Ukraine," Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said in a statement on Telegram. Ukrainian authorities reported more drones and missiles sent against more parts of Ukraine than in recent days.

Popko said the attacks were especially fierce in Odesa for a second consecutive night. The Ukrainian army's Operational Command South reported that at least 12 civilians sustained injuries in the attack on the Odesa region.

Meanwhile, Russian emergency officials in Crimea said that more than 2,200 people were evacuated from four villages because of a fire at a military facility. The fire also caused the closure of an important highway, according to Sergey Aksyonov, the Russia-appointed head of the peninsula, which was annexed in 2014.
He didn't specify a cause for the fire at the facility in Kirovsky district.

2,200
No. of people evacuated after fire at Crimea military facility

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