Russia Belatedly Admits Strike On Odessa Port – Says Warship With US Missiles “Destroyed”

After initially denying it, Russia has belatedly confirmed that its missiles struck the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odessa on Saturday, resulting in UN condemnation, and the US and its allies expressing outrage.

But while the Ukrainian government said Russia’s military targeted grain infrastructure in an attempt to thwart the Istanbul grain export deal it just signed under UN auspices, the new Russian Foreign Ministry admission identified that a Ukrainian warship with US-supplied missiles aboard was the target.

“In the seaport of Odessa, on the territory of a shipyard, a docked Ukrainian warship and a warehouse of Harpoon anti-ship missiles, supplied by the US to the Kiev regime, have been destroyed by sea-based high-precision long-range missiles,” the ministry said Sunday.