Russia struck Ukraine's largest Danube grain port at Izmail overnight, damaging infrastructure and cutting power, while a separate drone strike killed two rail workers in the Odesa region. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told CNN that Ukraine needs a share of the U.S. Patriot missile stockpile to survive the winter.
Danube port hit, train struck by drone
Russia struck Ukraine's largest Danube grain shipment port overnight, causing damage and setting off a fire at Izmail, authorities said Thursday. The Izmail regional state administration said on Telegram that the strikes damaged port infrastructure and knocked out power in the southeast of the city.
Izmail sits near the Romanian border in the southern Odesa region and handles exports of Ukrainian grain and other commodities. The attack came a day after Ukraine hit Novorossiysk, a major grain shipment hub in Russia's part of the Black Sea.
Romania, a NATO and European Union member, scrambled two fighter jets after an aerial target spent about 10 minutes in its national airspace before leaving for Ukraine, its defence ministry said on X. Separately, a Russian drone hit a passenger train in the Odesa region, killing the driver and his assistant, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, chief executive of Ukrainian Railways, said in a Facebook post.
Zelenskiy presses US for Patriots
Late Wednesday, Zelenskiy told CNN that Ukraine needs at least 5% of the current U.S. stockpile of Patriot interceptor missiles to get through winter. Kyiv has been seeking more PAC-3s, the newest Patriot variant capable of downing Russian ballistic missiles, but deliveries dwindled after the war on Iran diverted supplies.
Zelenskiy said a 10% share of the U.S. stockpile would be enough to stop all Russian ballistic missile attacks. According to CNN: "Sell us 5%, we will go through the winter and save people's lives." Ballistic missiles are harder to intercept than drones and cruise missiles because of their speed and steep trajectory.
Ballistic strikes surge
In July, Russia fired over 450 various missiles at Ukraine, more than half of them ballistic, Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian air force, said on Facebook. He also said the air force would stop announcing daily figures on downed and suppressed Russian ballistic missiles and would present them monthly instead.
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