{"id":53718,"date":"2025-12-26T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53718"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:51:22","slug":"russian-drones-damage-foreign-flagged-vessels-in-southern-ports-ukraine-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53718","title":{"rendered":"Russian drones damage foreign-flagged vessels in southern ports, Ukraine says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KYIV, Dec 26  &#8211; Russian overnight drone attacks damaged Slovakia-, Palau- and Liberia-flagged vessels in ports in Ukraine&#8217;s Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, Ukraine&#8217;s deputy prime minister said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, Russia has escalated attacks on the southern Odesa region, and Ukrainian officials said Moscow aimed to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russia-hits-ports-bridge-escalating-strikes-ukraines-odesa-region-2025-12-20\/\">cut Ukraine off<\/a>&nbsp;from the Black Sea and sow chaos among civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no casualties in Friday&#8217;s strikes, Oleksiy Kuleba said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app, but the attacks caused power cuts and damaged elevators and civilian warehouses in the Odesa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Separately, Kuleba added, drones damaged a locomotive and a freight car at the northwestern Kovel railway station, around 60 kilometres (37.28 miles) from Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Despite Russia&#8217;s deliberate terror, Ukraine&#8217;s logistics system continues to function,&#8221; Kuleba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia did not comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) KYIV, Dec 26 &#8211; Russian overnight drone attacks damaged Slovakia-, Palau- and Liberia-flagged vessels in ports in Ukraine&#8217;s Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, Ukraine&#8217;s deputy prime minister said on Friday. In recent weeks, Russia has escalated attacks on the southern Odesa region, and Ukrainian officials said Moscow aimed to&nbsp;cut Ukraine off&nbsp;from the Black Sea and sow chaos among civilians. There were no casualties in Friday&#8217;s strikes, Oleksiy Kuleba said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app, but the attacks caused power cuts and damaged elevators and civilian warehouses in the Odesa region. Separately, Kuleba added, drones damaged a locomotive&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53720,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718\/revisions\/53720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}