Three warehouses with grain were destroyed in the port of Reni in an invaders’ attack by Iranian strike drones of the Shahed type, according to the website of the Reni-Odesa. Our Common Home publication, citing the head of the Reni community, Ihor Plekhov.
According to the report, about 15 Shahed drones were recorded. Residents of Reni and surrounding villages heard a series of explosions. The blast wave also damaged the windows of buildings and structures at the Reni port. There were local fires, which were promptly eliminated.
“They are destroying the port,” one of the entrepreneurs who transships grain told the publication at five o’clock in the morning on Monday.
According to the update from the South task force on Facebook, there was a four-hour attack by Shahed-136 drones directed at the port infrastructure of the Danube, it reports the destruction of a hangar with grain, damage to tanks for storing other types of cargo and a fire in one of the production premises, which was quickly eliminated. One of the photos from the site of the attacked shows the containers of the world container shipping leader Maersk Group. Air defense forces destroyed three drones.
Earlier it was reported that in the Russian attack on the port infrastructure of Odesa region, six people were injured.
Images published by the command showed damage to the port.
The strike represents an expansion of the near nightly attacks on Ukraine’s Odesa region since Russia withdrew from the grain agreement that allowed Ukraine to export food via the Black Sea.
Oleksiy Danilov, head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, said on Sunday the Russian attacks were “an attempt to completely isolate Ukraine’s way to the Black Sea and, through an act of intimidation, to prevent and neutralize international efforts to resume the functioning of the ‘grain corridor’.”
Global wheat and corn futures rose sharply on concern that Russia’s attacks and more fighting, including a drone strike on Moscow, could threaten grain exports and shipping.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February last year, Ukraine has expanded grain exports overland via the European Union to about 1 million tons a month, with large volumes being exported from Romanian ports and along the Danube.
