Russia strikes Ukraine’s Odesa port in ‘hellish’ attack – official

Russia launched a massive air attack on the Ukranian port of Odesa for a second night in row, which one Ukrainian official on Wednesday described as “hellish”, but authorities vowed not be intimidated and to continue work to export grains.
The attack was “very powerful, truly massive,” Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa military administration, said in a voice message on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.
“It was a hellish night,” he said, adding that details on damage and casualties will come later.
The attacks on Odesa, one of Ukraine’s main ports for exporting grain, followed a pledge of retaliation by Russia after a blast on a bridge linking Russia to the Crimean Peninsula on Monday that Moscow blamed on Ukraine.
Shortly after the bridge was hit on Monday, Moscow withdrew from a year-old Black Sea grain agreement that allowed for the safe exports of Ukraine’s grain, a move the United Nations said risked creating hunger around the world.