Ukrainian forces shot down 17 Russian drones in southern Ukraine’s Odessa region and buildings were damaged in the port city district of Izmail, the local governor said on Monday. “Seventeen drones were shot down by our air defense forces […]. In several localities of Izmail district, warehouses and production buildings, agricultural machinery and equipment of industrial enterprises were damaged,” Oleg Kiper explained on Telegram.

“Several fires broke out in the territory (of civilian infrastructure) due to falling debris” after the drones were shot down, the governor added, noting that the fires were subsequently extinguished. According to the governor, the attack took place for three and a half hours and caused no casualties or injuries.

“According to information from Ukrainian border guards, during a massive attack by Russia in the area of ??the (Ukrainian) port of Izmail, Russian Shahed (drones) fell and exploded in the territory of Romania tonight,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko posted on Facebook.

“This is further confirmation that Russian missile terror poses a huge security threat not only to Ukraine, but also to neighboring countries, including NATO member states,” the doorman said. -speech in his statement.

Romania, for its part, quickly “categorically denied” these assertions, through its Ministry of Defense. The ministry is “monitoring the situation in real time” and “at no time” have Russian attacks on infrastructure on the Danube near its border “generated a direct military threat to the national territory or the territorial waters of the Romania,” he said in a statement.

The river port of Izmail has become one of the main exit routes for Ukrainian agricultural products since Moscow ended the agreement on grain exports in July.

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Russian drones had hit industrial sites on the Danube, said the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The Russian army had said for its part that it had carried out a raid using these devices against the port of Reni, also in the Odessa region.