Putin holds cruise missile drills in the Black Sea after warning that ships delivering cargo to Ukraine are “legitimate targets” since the grain deal was scrapped.
- Drills were conducted with anti-ship cruise miles from the Ivanovets warship
- Russia could not renew the grain agreement that allows Ukraine to export to poor countries
Russia held missile war games in the Black Sea as Vladimir Putin threatens to sink ships delivering cargo to Ukraine.
Live firing drills with anti-ship cruise missiles were conducted from the Ivanovets warship.
The target ship was ‘destroyed’ in the northwestern sector of the Black Sea, the Russians said.
The drills were held after Russia again bombed Ukrainian agricultural and grain warehouses linked to exports.
Senseless destruction follows Moscow’s failure to renew a grain deal that allows Ukraine to export goods to the world’s poorest countries amid the ongoing war.
Russia Holds Black Sea Missile War Games as Vladimir Putin Threatens to Sink Ships Delivering Cargo to Ukraine
Live firing drills with anti-ship cruise missiles were conducted from the Ivanovets warship.
Putin has been accused of using food as a weapon of war.
Russia announced this week that it will now consider all ships heading to Ukrainian ports as possible carriers of military cargo.
As such, they will be seen as targets of war, a sinister escalation of war.
Naval spokesman Alexander Sakharov said: “Today in the Black Sea, as part of a two-ship missile attack group, exercises were held to launch a missile attack on a simulated enemy.
‘During the drills, an exercise with cruise missiles was conducted. The shooting was successful. The enemy was destroyed.
The drills also involved the use of fleet aviation “to isolate the area temporarily closed to navigation” and to carry out “measures to stop” ships that did not obey Russian orders in the open sea.
Moscow has declared several maritime areas in the northwestern and southeastern parts of the international waters of the Black Sea “temporarily dangerous for navigation.”
Russian missile strikes overnight targeted grain warehouses at an agricultural enterprise in the Odessa region, injuring two people, said Serhii Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odessa military administration.
Putin (pictured yesterday) has been accused of using food as a weapon of war after scrapping the grain deal.
Russia said the target ship was “destroyed” in the northwestern section of the Black Sea.
Russia Warns Ships Carrying Cargo For Ukraine Are “Legitimate Targets”
It’s another sinister escalation of the war against Ukraine: seeing all ships containing cargo as targets of war.
A still image from a video, released by the Russian Defense Ministry, shows what it claimed to be the Ivanovets guided missile boat during exercises in the Black Sea.
“At dawn, the Russians fired Kalibr-type missiles from the missile carrier, which was on duty in the Black Sea at night,” he said.
‘Unfortunately, the grain terminals of one of the agricultural enterprises in the Odessa region were attacked.
‘The enemy destroyed 100 tons of peas and 20 tons of barley.’
Ukraine responded that it will consider ships delivering cargo to Russia to be linked to the military.
