Russia hits Izmail grain port as Zelenskiy seeks 5% of U.S. Patriots

Russia struck Izmail, Ukraine's largest Danube grain shipment port, overnight, damaging port infrastructure, causing a fire and knocking out power in the southeast of the city, while a separate drone attack in Odesa region hit a passenger train and killed the driver and his assistant. The strike on the port near Romania came a day after Ukraine hit Novorossiysk, a major Russian Black Sea grain hub, and prompted Romania, a NATO (Western military alliance) and European Union member, to scramble two fighter jets after an aerial target spent about 10 minutes in its airspace before heading back toward Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine needs at least 5% of the current U.S. stockpile of Patriot interceptor missiles (U.S.-made air defense missiles) to get through winter, and 10% would be enough to stop all Russian ballistic missile attacks. Kyiv has been seeking more PAC-3s (latest Patriot interceptor variant), which can down ballistic missiles, after deliveries dwindled when the war on Iran diverted supplies. Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian air force, said Russia fired more than 450 missiles at Ukraine in July, with more than half of them ballistic, and said the air force would stop announcing daily figures on downed and suppressed Russian ballistic missiles and present them monthly.

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