Russia targets Danube port after one of Ukraine’s largest aerial attacks of the war

BREAKING: Russia strikes port infrastructure in Ukraine's Odesa region, damaging a Togo-flagged civilian vessel and injuring four near Izmail, after Kyiv launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war on Moscow.

Russia hit Ukraine's biggest Danube port overnight, and four people are injured.

The strikes came down on the Izmail district in the Odesa region, right on the Romanian border. A civilian cargo ship flying the flag of Togo was damaged in the attack, that's according to the regional governor. Moscow says it was aiming at military cargo terminals and depots for naval drones. Izmail matters because the Danube has become a lifeline for Ukrainian trade, and Russia keeps reaching for it.

This was retaliation. Over the weekend Ukraine threw one of its largest drone attacks of the entire war at Moscow. Russia claims it downed 1,478 drones in a single day, a record, and reported at least six people killed. A massive fire tore through a warehouse belonging to Wildberries, Russia's answer to Amazon.

Kyiv says seven of Wildberries' ten biggest logistics hubs are now out of action. Four and a half years in, this war is going after economies, not just front lines.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.

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