Effectiveness of deal to restart exports and ease world food shortages in doubt after Russian strike on Odesa
Ukraine has warned that grain exports via the Black Sea would not restart as hoped if a Russian airstrike on a key port was followed by more, as Moscow insisted its weekend missile barrage on Odesa hit a warship and weapons stores.
Saturday’s attack, which the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, denounced as “barbarism” that showed Moscow could not be trusted to implement a freshly inked deal allowing grain exports to resume, drew international condemnation.
