On July 13, a Russian strike hit a civilian cargo ship flying the flag of Togo unloading mineral fertiliser at the port of Odesa, killing five and injuring ten. Oleh Kiper, governor of Odesa Oblast, said the death toll had increased after rescuers found two more bodies while extinguishing the fire on board.
The strike hit directly the superstructure of the vessel, Oleksii Kuleba, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for restoration, said. The impact was powerful enough to start a fire that took hours for emergency crews to control. Three of the five killed were foreign crew members. The sailors injured have been hospitalised and are still undergoing medical treatment.
Kuleba called the strike another Russian attack on civilian shipping and port infrastructure in Ukraine. He warned that such attacks threaten international navigation, undermine the stability of global trade and put the world’s food security at risk.
The ship was hit in a wider Russian assault across Ukraine overnight. Regional authorities said at least
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