Russia launched an overnight air attack on one of Ukraine’s major grain exporting ports, damaging warehouses and setting buildings on fire, Ukraine said, hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan.
A prolonged drone assault on the Danube River port of Izmail, in Ukraine’s Odesa region, hit warehouses and production buildings, and drone debris set several civilian infrastructure buildings on fire, the governor of the Odesa region said.
Putin and Erdogan met Monday in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, as Ankara and the United Nations seek to revive a Ukraine grain export deal that helped ease a global food crisis. Ankara called the talks vital for