Ukraine ports impossible to defend from attack – Odesa chief Kiper

DSNS rescue serviceThe overnight attack was the fourth on the Odesa region in five daysThe head of Ukraine’s Odesa region has said its three ports are “not possible” to protect fully because they span such a large area and Russia has intensified its missile attacks.He was speaking to the BBC after a 16-year-old girl, two women and a man were killed in a Russian strike on a two-floor building to the north-west of Odesa city.It was the fourth such attack on the Black Sea coastal region in five days, and regional head Oleh Kiper said “probably a ballistic missile was targeting an infrastructure facility, but it hit nearby instead – into this place.”Russia has not commented on its wave of missile strikes. A further nine people were killed in an attack on a cargo ship early on Thursday.There have been ballistic missile strikes on Odesa’s ports before. But never so many, in quick succession. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Russia had carried out 60 such attacks in just three…