Since the invasion of Russia began more than 17 months ago, it finally set sail on Wednesday through a temporary corridor established by Ukraine for merchant traffic. a freighter with grains from the port of Odessa.
After the Kremlin ripped a month ago from a deal brokered last summer by the United Nations and Turkey to guarantee the safe export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea, Kiev has sought to redirect the goods across the Danube and via road and rail links with Europe. But the transportation costs are much higher for those routessome European countries have expressed their reservations about its effects on the local price of grain, and the Danube ports cannot handle as much volume as the maritime ones.
The main targets of the night attack by Russian drones were port terminals and grain silos, the Odessa governor said. By Goalkeeper. That included ports in the Danube delta. Anti-aircraft defenses managed to intercept 13 drones over the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions, according to a morning update from the Ukrainian Air Force.