in Odesa on Saturday, said the Ukrainian army, threatening an agreement signed a day earlier to unlock the cereal exports Black Sea and facilitate the shortages of global food caused by war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the blatant strike as "barbarism" showing that Moscow could not be reliable to put the agreement heard. However, the public broadcaster Susilne quoted the Ukrainian army saying that the missiles had not caused significant damage and that a Minister of the Government said that the preparations had continued to restart cereal exports of the Black Black Port .
The agreement signed Friday by Moscow and Kyiv and mediated by the United Nations and Turkey have been praised as a breakthrough after almost five months of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbor. It is considered to be crucial to brake the rowing of world prices by allowing cereal exports to be shipped with black sea ports, including Odesa.
Kyiv, July 23 (Reuters) - A Russian strike on the port of Ukrainian Odesa on Saturday threatened an agreement to help cereal exports and facilitate a global food crisis
Here is the overall reaction
United Nations spokesperson
"The secretary general (Antonio Guterres) unequivocally condemns the strikes reported today in the Ukrainian port of Odesa. Yesterday, all parties clearly made commitments on the world scene to ensure the safe movement of Ukrainian cereals and products Related to the global markets. It was necessary to desperately tackle the global food crisis and relieve the suffering of millions of people in need worldwide.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy
"This proves only one thing: no matter what Russia says and promises, it will find ways not to implement it (the grain agreement)."
RUSSIA
A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry describing the progress in the war on Saturday did not mention any strike in Odesa. The ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comments from Reuters.
Maria Zakharova, republished the sentence of the United Nations and said: "It is horrible that the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guttes does not unequivocally condemn the murder of the regime Kyiv of children. "
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar
"They (Ukrainian officials) said that one of the missile attacks had struck one of the silos, and the other fell into an area close to the silo, but there was no problem in the ability loading and the capacity of the quays, which is important and that activities can continue.
The Turkish Minister of Defense said Russian officials told Ankara that Moscow had "nothing to do" with strikes. Neither the declarations of the Russian Defense Ministry nor the summary of the military evening mentioned the missile strikes in Odesa. The ministry did not respond to a request for comments from Reuters.
Two Kalibr Russian missiles struck the area of ??a pumping station at the port; According to the Army of Ukraine, two others were shot dead by the air defense air forces. Ukrainian spokesperson Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, said the missiles had been taken from black sea wars near Crimea
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