On the evening of October 9, the Russian occupiers launched a ballistic missile attack on the port infrastructure of the Odesa region. The number of dead increased to 7. A 46-year-old port employee died in the hospital.
The head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Oleh Kiper informed about this.
The Russians targeted the port infrastructure, in particular, a civilian ship under the flag of Panama, the container ship Shui Spirit. Six people died on the spot. Another eight were injured. All of them are Ukrainians.
The Russian army regularly strikes the civilian port infrastructure of Odesa. On October 6, the Russians attacked a St. Kitts and Nevis-flagged civilian vessel in port loaded with corn for export.
And already on October 7, a civilian vessel flying the flag of Palau came under attack. A 60-year-old Ukrainian, an employee of a private cargo handling company, died. Five more foreign citizens, crew members, were injured.
In September, Russian troops attacked Odesa with an Iskander-M missile. Her wreckage damaged a civilian ship under the flag of Antigua, and before that the Russians hit a civilian ship with wheat for Egypt in the Black Sea.
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