A Russian attack using drones damaged civilian and industrial infrastructure in Odesa Oblast, including a car repair workshop, outbuildings, fuel tankers, and storage tanks containing sunflower oil. Eleven lorries and one passenger car were also damaged, with firefighters extinguishing the resulting fires.
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Enemy drones damaged car repair workshop buildings, an outbuilding and a fuel tanker on the premises of one business. Eleven lorries and one passenger car were also damaged.
Storage tanks containing sunflower oil caught fire at another facility.
The ministry said the strike also hit “port infrastructure facilities in the Odesa region used to unload and store fuel and lubricants for Ukraine’s armed forces.”
The Russian army attacked civilian and industrial infrastructure in the Odesa region with drones, damaging a car repair shop, utility buildings, fuel tankers, trucks, and passenger cars.
Oleh Kiper reported that at one enterprise, buildings and vehicles were damaged, and rescue workers extinguished fires.
Russia struck a civilian cargo ship in Odesa Oblast on July 14, killing two people.
Russian armed forces struck three merchant ships in the Black Sea within hours of each other on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring three others as attacks on Odesa’s port infrastructure entered a fifth consecutive day. The first attack hit two vessels sailing under the flags of Tanzania and Liberia through a maritime corridor, killing the captain of one ship and injuring three crew members. A separate drone strike hit a third ship flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, killing two more people and sparking a fire that damaged the vessel’s superstructure.
Ukrainian forces deployed a ground robotic complex on the Kynburn Peninsula using a naval drone, coordinated by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The robotic complex conducted fire on targets while being test-fired.
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