{"id":49813,"date":"2024-10-07T06:32:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T03:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/russia-strikes-cargo-ship-in-ukrainian-port-of-yuzhny\/49813\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T06:32:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T03:32:38","slug":"russia-strikes-cargo-ship-in-ukrainian-port-of-yuzhny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/russia-strikes-cargo-ship-in-ukrainian-port-of-yuzhny\/49813\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Strikes Cargo Ship in Ukrainian Port of Yuzhny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A Russian missile strike damaged a civilian vessel at the port of Yuzhny, Ukraine overnight Saturday, according to Ukrainian state media and the Russian ministry of defense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attack on the ship reportedly involved an Iskander-M missile. In hazy infrared UAV footage captured at the scene, the missile is shown approaching the target, followed by a large blast. Russian state media claimed that the video showed a secondary explosion of a cargo of ammunition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russia claimed that the vessel was carrying a cargo of European-origin armament for the Ukrainian military.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Russia says they struck a container ship in Odessa that was delivering ammunition to Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7q5WnXGoV\">pic.twitter.com\/S7q5WnXGoV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonstew_\/status\/1842898457524072786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The name of the vessel was not disclosed, but the head of the Odesa region, Oleg Kiper, confirmed that no crewmembers aboard the ship had been injured.&nbsp;It was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/russian-missile-damages-odesa-port-and-docked-bulker\">third<\/a> Russian attack on a civilian vessel in the Black Sea region in a month (though a previous strike may well have been accidental).<\/p>\n<p>In simultaneous strikes, Russian drones damaged a gas pipeline, cargo trucks and a warehouse buildings. The attack went on for hours and involved about 90 drones in multiple waves. Targets in Kyiv were also hit in the same attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One warehouse security guard was injured in the UAV attack and was hospitalized. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces have repeatedly struck Ukrainian-bound shipping, but not always intentionally, according to UK military intelligence. A September 11 strike on the bulker <em>Aya <\/em>was &quot;almost certainly&quot; a mistake, according to UK Defence Intelligence. The vessel was hit by an AS-4 anti-ship missile launched by a Russian bomber and was likely the victim of &quot;poor targeting procedures from Russian pilots.&quot; The bomber was likely attempting to hit a ground target along Ukraine&#039;s coastline or on Snake Island, but ended up striking the <em>Aya <\/em>instead. It is possible that the aging weapon did not detonate, according to the UK MOD.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian missile strike damaged a civilian vessel at the port of Yuzhny, Ukraine overnight Saturday, according to Ukrainian state media and the Russian ministry of defense.&nbsp; The attack on the ship reportedly involved an Iskander-M missile. In hazy infrared UAV footage captured at the scene, the missile is shown approaching the target, followed by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[51,886,953,177,1070,4785,1255,22863],"class_list":["post-49813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-cargo","tag-cargo-ship","tag-port","tag-russia","tag-ship","tag-strikes","tag-ukrainian","tag-yuzhny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/49814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}