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A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had not targeted the delegation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a missile attack on the port of Odesa the previous day.<\/p>\nA senior ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had not targeted the delegation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a missile attack on the port of Odesa the previous day.<\/p>\n
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, said Moscow would have hit its target if that had been its aim<\/strong> and that it was obvious \u201cto everyone\u201d that there had been no planned strike on the motorcade.A Ukrainian presidential adviser\u00a0said\u00a0earlier on Thursday that it could not be ruled out that a Russian missile strike on Odessa had targeted the delegations of Zelenskiy and visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.The leaders were inspecting grain facilities in the Black Sea city when Russia launched an attack on port infrastructure there which the two leaders said they had witnessed.Follow the Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, stated that Russia did not target the delegation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a missile attack on the port of Odesa. He mentioned that if Moscow had intended to hit the target, it would have done so, implying there was no planned strike on the motorcade. A Ukrainian presidential adviser suggested that a Russian missile strike on Odesa might have been aimed at the delegations of Zelenskiy and visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who were inspecting grain facilities in Odesa at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[383,3,250,466,154,19,827,729,17,20,18],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-attack","tag-cyprus","tag-google","tag-missile","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-strike","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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