Moscow had promised retaliation for an attack on Monday with
seaborne drones that damaged the bridge linking Crimea, seized
from Ukraine in 2014, with southern Russia.
The attack coincided with Moscow's decision not to extend the
grain deal after accusing the West of failing to honour a
parallel memorandum intended to facilitate Russia's agricultural
and fertiliser exports.
Since then, Russia has directed nightly bombardments at
Ukraine's port facilities and fuel and grain stores.
On Thursday morning, the defence ministry said it had "continued
to deliver retaliatory strikes with high-precision sea and
air-based weapons at workshops and storage sites for unmanned
boats in the regions of Odesa and Chornomorsk".
"In the area of the city of Mykolaiv, fuel infrastructure
facilities and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
were destroyed," it added.
Vitaliy Kim, governor of the Mykolaiv region, said on Thursday
that 19 people were wounded in the regional capital, and several
residential buildings damaged.
A three-storey residential building was left without its top
floor and a line of adjacent ones was charred and gutted by
fire.
In Odesa, a security guard was killed and at least eight others
were wounded, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.
(Reporting by Felix Light; Editing by Kevin Liffey and John
Stonestreet)
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