Russia pounds Ukraine's vital port of Odesa, Mariupol plant

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By ELENA BECATOROS and JON GAMBRELL

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pounded away at the vital port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, as part of an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and weapons shipments. On the other end of the southern coast, they hammered a steel plant where Ukrainian fighters are denying Moscow full control of another critical port.

Days after the dramatic rescue of what some officials said were the last civilians trapped at the plant in Mariupol, authorities said about 100 were still believed to be in the network of underground tunnels under bombardment. The strikes come as the grisly toll of the war continued to take shape, with the Ukrainians saying they found the bodies of 44 civilians in the rubble of a building in the northeast that was destroyed weeks ago.

The Ukrainian military said Tuesday that Russian forces fired seven missiles a day earlier from the air at the crucial Black Sea port of Odesa, hitting a shopping center and a warehouse. One person was killed and five were wounded, the military said.

Ukraine alleged at least some of the munitions used dated back to the Soviet era, making them unreliable in targeting. But the Center for Defense Strategies, a Ukrainian think tank tracking the war, said Moscow did use some precision weapons against Odesa: Kinzhal, or “Dagger,” hypersonic air-to-surface missiles.



An Ukrainian firefighter works near a destroyed building on the outskirts of Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The Ukrainian military said Russian forces fired seven missiles a day earlier from the air at the crucial Black Sea port of Odesa, hitting a shopping center and a warehouse. (AP Photo/Max Pshybyshevsky)


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[LiberalFighter]

1. I do wish that there were attacks on Russia.

But I guess Ukraine doesn't have the weaponry.

[IronLionZion]

2. Ukraine does launch missiles into Russian territory

but they have to use it sparingly to make it count. They don't have a lot of missiles.

[Marcuse]

3. They can't/wouldn't flatten cities.

[IronLionZion]

4. They target warships, fuel and weapons depots

high value military targets

[867-5309.]

5. I thought the US wouldn't approve Ukraine firing into Russia?

Or is that only forbidden with US supplied weapons?

[IronLionZion]

6. Unless these depots spontaneously combusted

Somebody hit them with something. Video footage makes it sound and look like missile strikes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mystery_fires

[ck4829]

7. Kick