Three people have been killed, several more civilians have been wounded and high-rise residential buildings have been damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack on Odesa on the night of 1-2 March. Source: Oleh Kiper, Head of Odesa Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram ; State Emergency Service of Ukraine Details: Kiper stated that […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three people were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said Saturday. A further eight people sustained injuries, authorities said. Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that the Odesa region was attacked by eight drones, of which seven […]
Russia was expelled from the Danube Commission, an international intergovernmental organization developing free navigation on the Danube River, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reported on March 1. The commission adopted a decision in December last year calling on Russia to leave the organization as its continuous attacks on the Lower Danube region, part of which […]
Annalena Baerbock, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, came to Odesa with an unannounced visit on 24 February, the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source: European Pravda, with reference to DPA, Germany’s state news agency Details: Baerbock travelled to Odesa alongside her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. It is her sixth visit […]
Ukraine is planning to launch the first container ships from Greater Odesa ports soon, which has not been possible until now for security reasons [the three ports of the Greater Odesa are Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi – ed.]. Source: Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister, in the Chronicle of the Economy podcast by Ekonomichna Pravda Details: […]
Dmitry Medvedev, former President of the Russian Federation and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has claimed that in order to “achieve the goals of the special military operation (the Russian propaganda euphemism for the war against Ukraine)”, Russian forces will have to march on Kyiv again, “if not now, then at some point”, and […]
Romania issued a warning to the population of border settlements and took off F-16 fighter jets during the attack of Russian drones on Odesa Oblast on the night of 9-10 February. Source: Romanian Ministry of National Defence, reported by European Pravda Details: The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations of Romania issued an air-raid warning in […]
Ukraine’s Air Force has warned of possible attacks in Ukraine’s south after the Russians launched attack UAVs on the evening of 9 February. Source: Ukraine’s Air Force on Telegram; Suspilne Quote: “UAVs coming from the south in Odesa Oblast, Biliaivka district, moving to Odesa from the west; UAVs from the Black Sea entering Mykolaiv Oblast […]
Following a trip to Odesa, Pierre Heilbronn, France’s Special Envoy for Aid and Reconstruction of Ukraine, stated that Paris would assist in the restoration of museums and cultural monuments in Odesa that had been damaged by the war. Source: European Pravda; Pierre Heilbronn on Twitter (X) Details: Heilbronn stated that approximately a hundred cultural heritage […]
The Russian forces once again attacked Ukraine with drones on 7-8 February at night. Civilian infrastructure has been struck in the cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv, the fragments of downed drones caused a fire at an infrastructure facility in Vinnytsia Oblast. Source: the Defence Forces of Ukraine’s South; Vitalii Kim, head of the Mykolaiv Oblast […]
A total of 6.3 million metric tons of goods were exported through ports in and around the city of Odesa in January 2024, which was “almost equal” to levels seen before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov reported on Feb. 3. Over 20 million metric tons of cargo has been exported from […]
Over 20 million metric tons of cargo has been exported from ports in and around the city of Odesa via Ukraine’s temporary Black Sea corridor in the last six months, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov reported on Feb. 3. The shipping route was opened in August 2023, weeks after Russia’s unilateral termination of the Black Sea […]