Moscow said on Sunday that its cruise missiles had struck the military infrastructure of Ukraine’s Odessa port, a day after telling Turkey that Russia had “nothing to do” with the strike following a grain deal reached with the United Nations, Turkey and Ukraine.
The Russian Navy’s strike on the port in Odessa destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship, as well as a warehouse where naval Harpoon missiles, supplied by the US, were stored, the Russian Defense Ministry has stated. The ministry added that ship-based long-range precision missiles were used to strike these targets.