It is a protected area under the Istanbul agreement reached on Friday to resume grain exports
Russia’s government and military confirmed on Sunday the missile attack denounced by Ukrainian authorities yesterday on the port of Odessa, protected under the Istanbul agreement reached on Friday to resume grain exports, but pointed out that the bombings They were intended for military purposes.
“Kalibr missiles have destroyed the military infrastructure of the port of Odessa,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zajarova confessed in her Telegram account, explaining that the attacks targeted a “Ukrainian military ship.” “, which was hit in this “high precision” bombardment.
Shortly afterwards, Russian army spokesman General Igor Konashenkov provided more information about the attack, which destroyed not only the military ship, which he identified as a “warship on the dockside”, but also a missile storage facility. ship supplied by the United States “Other facilities for the repair and modernization of the Ukrainian naval forces have also been rendered inoperable,” General Konashenkov added at a press conference gathered by Interfax.
The attack on the port of Odessa was received between the concerns of Turkey, which guarantees the agreement, and the condemnation of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Ukraine itself, for launching at least four Calibration missiles, two of which ultimately affected port facilities.
Under the agreement, a coalition of Turkish, Ukrainian and UN personnel will oversee the loading of grain onto ships in the Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chernomosk and Pivdenyi, before sailing a pre-planned route through the Black Sea.
The ships will cross the Black Sea to the Bosphorus in Turkey, where a joint coordination center will be established in Istanbul, with representatives from the UN, Ukraine, Russia and Turkey. Likewise, this center will examine ships entering Ukraine to ensure they have no weapons or combat equipment on board.
Source: La Verdad
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