Zelenskiy hits out at Russian ‘barbarism’ over attack on Odesa port hours after grain deal

Ukrainian president says attack shows Moscow can't be trusted to implement deal to unblock exports agreed less than a day before

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Russia of barbarism" after missiles hit the southern port of Odesa, threatening a deal signed just a day earlier to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease global food shortages caused by the war.

Barely 12 hours after Moscow signed a deal with Kyiv to allow monitored grain exports from Ukraine's southern ports, Russia targeted Odesa - through which shipments would take place - with cruise missile strikes.