Ukraine accuses Russia of launching four missiles over Odessa also hitting the commercial port, crucial for the wheat agreement signed yesterday in Istanbul. According to Ukrainian media, the Russians used Kalibr-type cruise missiles. Stop the condemnation of the EU with Borrell and Gentiloni. Zelensky he attacks: “Prove only one thing: no matter what Russia says or promises, it will find a way not to implement”, the agreement.
Turkey said it was “worried” for Russian attacks. “The fact that such an incident happened right after the agreement we reached yesterday … really worries us,” said Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar. The minister then reported that Russia denies the attack: “The Russians have told us that they have absolutely nothing to do with this attack and that they are looking into the matter very closely,” he said.
“The Russians hit the port of Odessa in Ukraine exactly where the grain was stored “ denounced Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
“Two missiles were shot down by the anti-aircraft defense forces, two hit the infrastructural structures of the port”, reads the message from local officials. According to deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko, there are victims. “Once again they showed what the deals with them are worth,” he wrote.
With the missile attack on Odessa, Vladimir Putin “spat in the face” of the UN and Turkey. This was stated by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Facebook, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.
Should the wheat deal fail, it will be Russia’s “full responsibility”said the spokesman of the foreign ministry of Kiev, Oleg Nikolenko, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.
The EU takes a stand with the High Representative for EU Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell. “The EU strongly condemns the Russian missile attack on the Odesa port. Hitting a crucial grain export target one day after the signing of the Istanbul agreements is particularly reprehensible and once again demonstrates Russia’s utter disregard for the law and international commitments, “writes Borrell in a tweet.
For the EU Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni it is a challenge to the UN. “Yesterday the agreement on wheat. Today Russian bombs on Odessa. A challenge to the United Nations and to every negotiation effort”, writes Gentiloni on Twitter.
The Secretary General of the United Nations Anthony Guterres condemned in no uncertain terms the Russian attack on the Ukrainian port of Odessa.
“It took less than 24 hours for the Russian Federation to launch a missile attack on the port of Odessa to question the agreements and promises made to the UN and Turkey in the document signed yesterday in Istanbul” on the safe export of Ukrainian wheat , writes the spokesman of the Foreign MinistryOleg Nikolenko are Facebook.
“The Russian missile is Vladimir Putin’s spit in the face of UN Secretary General António Guterres and President of Turkey Recep Erdogan, who have made enormous efforts to reach an agreement, and to which Ukraine is grateful,” adds Nikolenko. .
“Ukraine stresses the need for strict implementation of the agreements on the restoration of the safe export of Ukrainian agricultural products across the Black Sea from three ports: Odessa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhnoye. We call on the United Nations and Turkey to ensure that Russia fulfills its obligations as part of the safe operation of the grain corridor. In the event of non-compliance with the agreements reached – he concludes -, Russia will assume full responsibility for the worsening of the world food crisis “.
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