Russian missiles hit the city of Odesa Saturday, hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals allowing grain exports to resume from the Black Sea port, officials in Ukraine say.
sile attack on Odesa's port, breaking its promises and undermining its commitments before the U.N. and Turkey under the Istanbul agreement,” Nikolenko said in a statement.
“In case of nonfulfillment, Russia will bear full responsibility for a global food crisis,” he added. Two missiles hit the port’s infrastructure and Ukrainian air defenses brought down two others, the Southern Command of Ukraine's military said in a statement. It did not specify whether there were any casualties or what damage was caused.Nikolenko called on the U.N.
During a Friday signing ceremony in Istanbul, Guterres hailed the deal as “a beacon of hope, a beacon of possibility, a beacon of relief in a world that needs it more than ever.” The deal was also supposed to establish a de facto cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia along identified shipping routes, and represented a big symbolic breakthrough.“The Kremlin continues to weaponize food. Russia must be held to account,” she wrote on Twitter.The Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports has been in place since the invasion of the country on Feb. 24, triggering a food crisis around the globe.
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