Ismail County

Day 580 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Two brothers - Igor and Yevgeny Bonchevi from the village of Nadezhdivka, Artsyz municipality, Bolhrad Raion, died at the front this year. "This is a great tragedy for the family - their two sons, aged 32 and 38, died," wrote the Artsyz municipality on its official website.

One person was killed in Russian drone attacks on a port district in Ukraine's southwestern Odesa region early Wednesday, the regional governor said.

The night-time attacks lasted three hours and targeted the Izmail district, Oleg Kiper said on Telegram.

The spokesman of the Romanian Ministry of Defense, a NATO member country, told reporters that the allegations that Russian drones fell and exploded on Romanian territory are incorrect, reports Reuters.
He added that the Ministry will issue an official statement about the incident later.

Ukraine downed three waves of Russian missiles and drones targeting Odesa, its army said early on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks in the southern region on the Black Sea coast.

Russian drones damaged port infrastructure in Odesa and targeted capital Kiev from several directions, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday.

The army said it repelled Iraninan-made Shahed-136 drones launched from the Sea of Azov through the Black Sea that were aimed at the Odesa region.

The Ukrainian authorities must observe the rights of the Romanian historical community to an extent "proportional to the fair treatment" of ethnic minorities living in Romania, Chairman of the Committee on Romanians Everywhere Senator Claudiu Tarziu of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) told an international forum called "Romanian Communities in the Odessa Region: Efficient Ways to D