INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian drones targeted Ukraine's southern Odesa region in the early hours of Sunday, with Moscow hitting a Danube port on the border with
NATO member Romania in an attack condemned by Bucharest.Moscow has hit Ukrainian port infrastructure on the Black Sea and on the Danube for
weeks, since exiting a key deal that allowed the safe passage of ships carrying grain.The attack came on the eve of a summit in Russia
between Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who hopes to revive the grain deal.The Odesa region attacks also came as
Kyiv has claimed some successes in its counteroffensive on the southern front this week.Ukraine said Russia had hit the Odesa region with a
barrage of Iranian-made Shahed drones, saying it downed 22 of them.But Kyiv also said that some of the drones hit the Danube area, saying
that at least two people were wounded in attacks on "civilian industrial" infrastructure.The Russian army said it had targeted "fuel
storage" facilities in the Ukrainian port of Reni, which lies on the Danube river that separates Ukraine from Romania.Moscow has targeted
the attacks were "unjustified and in deep contradiction with the rules of international humanitarian law."It also stressed that the Moscow
drone attacks did not "generate any direct military threat to the national territory or territorial waters of Romania."Neighbouring Moldova
called the attack "brutal.""Russia must be held accountable for every piece of infrastructure destroyed," Chisinau's pro-EU President Maia
southern front of its counteroffensive.On Wednesday, Kyiv said it had recaptured the village of Robotyne, calling it a strategic victory
that would pave the way for its forces to push deeper into Russian positions towards Moscow-annexed Crimea.General Oleksandr Tarnavskiy,
leading the southern counteroffensive, told The Guardian newspaper this weekend that Kyiv's army has made an important breakthrough by
cleaned a route by foot and at night.The paper quoted him as saying that Kyiv's forces are now back on vehicles and that Russia has
redeployed troops to the area."But sooner or later, the Russians will run out of all the best soldiers," Tarnavskiy said."Everything is
ahead of us."He admitted difficult losses for Kyiv, saying that "we are losing the strongest and best."
