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Moscow claims Odesa missile strikes hit military targets

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Moscow said on Sunday that Russian air strikes on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa were aimed at military targets including a stockpile of U.S.-supplied missiles.

The attack on Saturday raised doubts over Moscow's willingness to abide by a crucial agreement reached on Friday to unblock Ukraine’s seaports to allow for the transport of millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products.

The Russian missile attack on Saturday also hit a warship and facilities to repair ships, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters in Moscow.

“In the seaport in the city of Odesa, on the territory of a shipyard, sea-based high-precision long-range missiles destroyed a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse with Harpoon anti-ship missiles supplied by the U.S. to the Kyiv regime”, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a daily briefing on Sunday, the Associated Press reported....

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