<p>Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River and wounded six people in a drone attack on Monday, expanding the target area of an air campaign that it launched last week after pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal, Ukraine said.</p>.<p>Russia has pounded food export facilities in Ukraine's Odesa region in almost nightly attacks since it withdrew from a UN-brokered wartime agreement that allowed global grain producer Ukraine to export food via the Black Sea.</p>.<p>The attacks have mostly targeted facilities in the major sea ports of Odesa, but Monday's pre-dawn strikes hit infrastructure along the Danube River, a smaller export route that some Ukrainian grain companies have built up as an alternative.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/ukraine-reports-more-advances-in-south-battles-rage-in-east-1240148.html">Ukraine reports more advances in south, battles rage in east</a></strong></p>.<p>"Warehouses where grain crops were stored were destroyed, tanks for storing other types of cargo were damaged. There was a fire in one of the production premises, which was promptly extinguished," police said in a statement.</p>.<p>News website Reni-Odesa said damaged infrastructure was located at the Reni river port on the Danube and that around 15 drones had taken part in the attack, citing a local official.</p>.<p>Odesa's regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said Russia had attacked with Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones for four hours and that Ukrainian air defences had shot down three incoming drones.</p>.<p>"Russia hit another Ukrainian grain storage overnight," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter, without identifying the location of the target.</p>.<p>"It (Russia) tries to extract concessions by holding 400 million people hostage. I urge all nations, particularly those in Africa and Asia who are most affected by rising food prices, to mount a united global response to food terrorism."</p>
<p>Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River and wounded six people in a drone attack on Monday, expanding the target area of an air campaign that it launched last week after pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal, Ukraine said.</p>.<p>Russia has pounded food export facilities in Ukraine's Odesa region in almost nightly attacks since it withdrew from a UN-brokered wartime agreement that allowed global grain producer Ukraine to export food via the Black Sea.</p>.<p>The attacks have mostly targeted facilities in the major sea ports of Odesa, but Monday's pre-dawn strikes hit infrastructure along the Danube River, a smaller export route that some Ukrainian grain companies have built up as an alternative.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/ukraine-reports-more-advances-in-south-battles-rage-in-east-1240148.html">Ukraine reports more advances in south, battles rage in east</a></strong></p>.<p>"Warehouses where grain crops were stored were destroyed, tanks for storing other types of cargo were damaged. There was a fire in one of the production premises, which was promptly extinguished," police said in a statement.</p>.<p>News website Reni-Odesa said damaged infrastructure was located at the Reni river port on the Danube and that around 15 drones had taken part in the attack, citing a local official.</p>.<p>Odesa's regional governor, Oleh Kiper, said Russia had attacked with Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones for four hours and that Ukrainian air defences had shot down three incoming drones.</p>.<p>"Russia hit another Ukrainian grain storage overnight," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter, without identifying the location of the target.</p>.<p>"It (Russia) tries to extract concessions by holding 400 million people hostage. I urge all nations, particularly those in Africa and Asia who are most affected by rising food prices, to mount a united global response to food terrorism."</p>