Russia struck Ukraine’s largest Danube grain shipment port overnight, causing damage and setting off a fire, authorities said yesterday, after President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine needed more US air defence missiles to get through winter.

The port of Izmail, near the Romanian border in the southern region of Odesa, handles exports of Ukrainian grain and other commodities. The Izmail regional state administration said on Telegram the strikes caused damage to port infrastructure and took out power in the southeast of the city.

The attack comes a day after Ukraine hit Novorossiysk, a major grain shipment hub in Russia’s part of the Black Sea.

A separate Russian drone attack on a train carrying hundreds of passengers in southern Ukraine killed two people, Ukrainian officials said.

“Today in the Odesa region, the Russians once again destroyed an ordinary passenger train locomotive with a jet-powered drone. There were 340 people on the train,” Zelensky said.

A Ukrainian attack on a major Russian oil refinery has put the plant out of action for around six months, a Russian official said yesterday. Ukraine hit the refinery in Orsk earlier this week, triggering a massive fire at the site.