Russian Drones Strike Ukrainian Port for the Second Consecutive Night

Ukrainian firefighters works on a destroyed building after a drone attack in Kyiv on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. - Ukraine officials said on October 17, 2022 that the capital Kyiv had been struck four times in an early morning Russian attack with Iranian drones that damaged a residential building and targeted the central train station. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Russian drones attacked the southern Ukrainian port city of Izmail for the second consecutive night, causing damage to infrastructure, Kyiv reported on Thursday.

Ukrainian officials also claimed that several Russian drones breached Romanian airspace during the assaults.

Since withdrawing from a UN-Turkey-brokered grain export agreement last year, Moscow has persistently targeted ports in the southern Odesa region.

In Izmail, local authorities reported damage to port infrastructure and noted that two civilians were injured. The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed that Russia launched 38 Iranian-designed attack drones, with air defense systems intercepting 25 of them. Additionally, three drones were lost after crossing into Romanian airspace.

The governor of the Odesa region, which borders Romania, stated that an administrative building was damaged in the latest attack. The day before, three people were injured in a similar strike on Izmail.

Following the attack on Wednesday, Romania’s military conducted a search for drone debris near the Ukrainian border. Residents in 17 cities and villages in Romania’s southeastern Tulcea county received alerts about “several objects” approaching the area, and explosions were reported.

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