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The military said in a statement that 10 Shahed drones were
downed in the skies over the Black Sea port of Odesa.
"Another massive nighttime drone attack by the Russians in the
Odesa region. Combat work lasted for one hour and a half," said
Oleh Kiper, the Odesa regional governor.
"Air defense units repelled many waves of Shaheds coming from
the Black Sea via complex maneuvers and between residential
buildings and industrial districts, that made air defense work
more difficult."
Kiper said that an infrastructure facility, an administrative
building, and some commercial buildings were damaged. There were
no immediate reports of casualties.
The southern Odesa region has come under six Russian drone
attacks so far this month.
Russia has intensified bombardments of Ukrainian ports,
including Odesa, and grain infrastructure after Moscow last
summer pulled out of a U.N.-brokered deal that allowed some food
exports to flow, despite the war, now in its third year.
Ukraine is a major agricultural producer and exporter and Kyiv
has since set up an alternative corridor to ship its products
via its Black Sea ports near Odesa.
Ukrainian officials have said that exports of different cargo -
including grains and metal - from Ukrainian Black Sea ports
reached nearly pre-invasion levels last month.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Sunday that the
Russian military had launched 175 drones on different targets in
Ukraine since the start of March. Ukraine downed 151 of them, he
said.
(Reporting by Olena Harmash; Editing by Ros Russell)
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