Russia attacks port infrastructure in Odesa, killing one civilian employee

Russia launched a missile attack overnight into Thursday on the port infrastructure of the southern region of Odesa, killing one person, Ukraine’s Operational Command South said on Facebook.

“Kalibr missiles were launched from a submarine in the waters of the Black Sea at a critically low altitude, which made detection difficult,” the statement said.

“A civilian employee was killed when one of the administrative buildings of the port was hit,” it said.

Production equipment in one of the cargo terminals was damaged, it added.

Oleh Kiper, the head of the region’s military administration, said on Thursday the employee who died was a security guard born in 1979. The guard building and two vehicles were also destroyed, he said.

In a separate update on Thursday, the Ukrainian Air Force said it had recorded two Kalibr missiles from a submarine in the Black Sea and eight Shahed-136/131 drones from the direction of Prymorsko-Akhtarsk.

It said the Kalibr missiles were not intercepted, but all eight drones were destroyed by the Air Force in the Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropertovsk and Donetsk regions.