The Latest Breaking News from Odesa

While the world’s eyes have been on civilian casualties, forced displacement and potential war crimes on Ukrainian land, the plight of hundreds of seafarers trapped in commercial ships for the past several months has gone mostly unnoticed. They have been stranded in the main Ukrainian ports of Mariupol, Kherson and…

The second stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is underway. The scope of the war now appears to be establishing full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine. If successful, this would mean Russian occupation of approximately one-third of Ukraine, cutting the country off from its Black Sea ports, including Odesa.

A Ukrainian woman and her three-month-old baby are among eight people killed in missile attacks on Odesa, officials say.

Ukraine will ask U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin for more powerful weapons during an expected visit by the officials to Kyiv on Sunday as the Russian invasion enters its third month.

Multiple Ukrainian cities were hit by strikes as remaining Mariupol troops continue to hold out

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian troops faced off Saturday along a 300-mile battlefront in the country’s east, where Ukraine said it beat back numerous attacks but faced renewed shelling in the crippled city of Mariupol, the Black Sea port of Odesa and beyond.

Russia has also attacked a steel plant where around 1,000 civilians are sheltering

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will face calls for more lethal aid as he meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine later today. Elsewhere, Russian missile strikes on the port of Odesa killed five, including a baby, and Russia stepped up its assault on the Azovstal steel plant.

Russia used high precision missiles on Saturday to destroy a logistics terminal in Odesa where a large number of weapons supplied by the United States and European nations were being stored, the defence ministry said.