The ukrainian war It has been 512 days without signs of an end. It will be “long and difficult”, admitted a senior adviser to the Ukrainian presidency. After the Russian withdrawal from the grain agreement that has allowed the export of more than 32 million tons since then, Russia has declared any ship heading towards Ukrainian ports as a military objective.
Since the withdrawal, Russia has been employed in the destruction of Ukrainian ports and infrastructure dedicated to the export of agricultural products. Moscow attacked this morning with Kalibr cruise missiles for fourth night in a row Odessa.
Russia is already conducting military exercises in the Black Sea to destroy ships with missiles and isolate the northwestern area which has closed to navigation.
The ship’s crew Ivanovets of the Black Sea Fleet “fired anti-ship cruise missiles at the target ship (…) in the northwestern part of the Black Sea”. The Russian Defense Ministry, led by Sergei Shoigu, “confirmed the combat exercise successgiven that the target ship was destroyed as a result of a missile attack.”
For their part, Ukrainian troops have been using US-supplied cluster bombs for “the past week or so.” kyiv tries to recover large parts of territory in the south and east still occupied by Russia, but the counteroffensive seems paralyzed in long sections of the front.