Russian missiles destroy Odesa grain stores

Ukraine authorities said Monday that the southern port of Odesa came under heavy Russian drones and missiles attack overnight that destroyed grain stores and wounded one person.

The Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine said Russia sent 19 Shahed drones and fired two Onyx supersonic missiles and 12 Kalibr missiles.

Nineteen drones and 11 Kalibrs were shot down while the others hit targets and caused significant damage.

"Onyx missiles destroyed granaries while warehouses and a private house in the Odesa suburbs were damaged and caught fire "as a result of falling debris."

Nataliya Gumenyuk, spokesperson for the Ukrainian southern military command, said one of the grain stores hit was empty.

Odesa regional governor Oleg Kiper said on Telegram that one woman in Odesa, a civilian, was injured by shrapnel "in a blast wave" and was being treated in hospital.

Meanwhile, Russia's defense ministry said its air defenses had "destroyed" four unmanned aerial vehicles over the northwestern Black Sea, and the Crimean peninsula which Moscow annexed in 2014.

It said two drones each were intercepted in Kursk and Bryansk, two regions bordering Ukraine.

Kursk regional governor Roman Starovoyt said several homes and the roof of an administrative building were damaged in the attack by Ukrainian unmanner aerial vehicles.

Bryansk regional governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said there were "no casualties or damage" in the region.

WITH AFP