Ukraine says Russia struck port facilities on Danube

Kyiv: Ukraine said Wednesday that Russia had struck port infrastructure in Ukraine's southern region of Odesa, targeting facilities used to export grain since the collapse of the deal allowing shipments from the Black Sea.

"On the night of August 2, Russian armed forces carried out a drone attack on Odesa," the general prosecutor's office said in a statement.

"The enemy attacked port facilities and industrial infrastructure of the Danube."


As a result of the attack, a grain elevator, grain silos and warehouses were damaged or destroyed, prosecutors said.

The Izmail district prosecutor's office has opened a probe, the statement added.

Romania's President Klaus Iohannis, whose country borders the southern tip of Ukraine along the Danube, called Russia's repeated attacks on Ukraine's Danube infrastructure "unacceptable", alleging they were "war crimes".