Russia pounded the southern cities of Ukraine with drones and missiles for a third consecutive night on Thursday, keeping Odesa in the Kremlin’s crosshairs following a bitter dispute over the termination of a wartime contract that permitted Ukraine to transport grain via the key Black Sea port.
The strikes took the lives of at least two individuals in Odesa. In the city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, at least 19 individuals, including one child, were severely injured, per reports from...