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Civilian ships operating near port infrastructure in an active conflict zone carry a narrow margin: when a strike is aimed at the quay, the hulls alongside absorb what follows.
Russia hit port facilities in Ukraine's Odesa region and damaged a Togo-flagged civilian vessel near the Danube port of Izmail, after Kyiv launched what it described as one of the largest aerial attacks of the war, a major drone assault on Moscow.
The order of events is part of the story. Ukraine's drone assault on Moscow came first. Russia's strike on Odesa-region port infrastructure followed.
No rationale from Moscow for the specific target has been disclosed, and whether the timing was responsive or coincidental has not been reported.
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