Tidbits
Odessa is the largest grain handling port on the Black Sea. It is in Southeast Ukraine. A Russian ballistic missile attack struck a residential area in Odessa on Friday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 70.
According to the UN, since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, just over 10,000 civilians have been killed in 2 years, including 3,093 women and 587 children.
At the same time, during the 5 months of conflict in the Gaza Strip, more than 25,000 civilians, most of them women and children, have been killed and more than 60,000 people have been injured.
Yesterday, Ukraine attacked with drones a Russian oil refinery that caused a fire which burned for hours before it was brought under control in the latest of several damaging strikes this week on Russia's crude oil processing plants.