After targeting Black Sea port facilities, Russia targeted Ukraine’s agriculture storage depots.

KYIV: Following three days of bombarding the region’s Black Sea port infrastructure, Russian cruise missiles expanded their targets early on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials, destroying farm storage structures in the Odesa region.

Other Russian missiles looked to be continuing a continuous campaign to limit Ukraine’s food exports by damaging what officials only referred to as a “important infrastructure facility” southwest of the port city of Odesa.

After Moscow abandoned a wartime agreement that allowed Ukraine to send grain via the crucial Black Sea port, Odesa has come under attack in recent days.

Regional Governor Oleh Kiper claimed that during the attack on the storage facility, two of the low-flying cruise missiles struck initially and set a fire, and a third struck while firefighters were putting out the flames. Two individuals were hurt, equipment was damaged, and 100 tonnes of peas and 20 tonnes of barley were destroyed by the barrage, according to Kiper.

After threatening to respond for an attack that destroyed a vital bridge connecting Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow has occupied, Russia targeted Ukrainian essential grain export infrastructure.

A spokeswoman for Operational Command South of the Ukrainian military, Natalia Humeniuk, stated that “the enemy is continuing terror, and it’s unquestionably related to the grain deal.”

Both Russia and Ukraine have said that they will consider any ships going to the ports of the other country across the Black Sea as potential military targets.

The recent attacks on grain and port infrastructure as well as the threats of escalation at sea, according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, “are likely part of a Kremlin effort to leverage Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and exact extensive concessions from the West.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey suggested that in order to reestablish the Black Sea grain corridor, Western nations should respond to Russia’s requests.