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sparks fire at Ukraine port; Zelenskyy seeks interceptorsUkraine has reported an acute shortage of Patriot interceptors
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on August 11, 2026 [Stringer/Reuters]By AFP and ReutersPublished On 13 Aug 202613 Aug 2026Russian forces have struck
Ukraine’s Izmail port in southern Odesa, setting off a fire, authorities said, a day after Kyiv pounded Russia’s
Novorossiysk port.In a statement on the Telegram app early on Thursday, the Izmail Regional State Administration said
Russian forces struck “port infrastructure”, causing damage and a fire.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of
4Zelenskyy says Ukraine has sent proposals to US to end war with Russialist 2 of 4Ukraine hits grain terminals at
Russia’s Novorossiysk port, killing threelist 3 of 4Putin warns of tit-for-tat seizures of European vesselslist 4 of
4Is Russia’s economy cracking despite the Iran war windfall?end of listIt said emergency personnel were at the scene
to extinguish it.Izmail, close to the Romanian border, is home to Ukraine’s largest Danube port, handling grain and
other commodities.The attacks came as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN that the country needs 5
percent of the United States’s Patriot interceptor missiles to get through the winter and 10 percent to destroy all of
Russia’s ballistic projectiles.Russia has recently been firing barrages at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, roughly once a
week, killing civilians and damaging or destroying homes.In one attack, Ukraine failed to intercept any of the 28
ballistic missiles launched at it.Zelenskyy said Ukraine this year “had two and a half times less interceptors than we
had in 2025”.“Russia has two times more ballistic missiles per month than they had before,” he said. “This year,
I’m asking American partners to sell me 5 percent of missiles [that] they have in their stocks.”“If they sell us 5
percent, we will go through the winter and save people’s lives,” he added. “If they can sell us 10 percent, we
will destroy all the Russians’ ballistic missiles. I have 1 percent.” Ukraine has reported an acute shortage of
Patriot interceptors since the US and Israel launched the war on Iran in February, diverting supplies of the advanced
systems. Advertisement Ballistic missiles are much harder to intercept than cruise missiles or drones because they move
faster and follow steep trajectories.On Wednesday, Ukraine’s air force said it would stop publishing detailed figures
on Russian ballistic missile strikes as Ukrainian forces struggle to intercept Russia’s heightened attacks.The
restrictions concern “the number of targets launched, shot down, suppressed or those that failed to reach their
targets,” air force communications chief Yurii Ihnat said on Facebook. Real-time warnings would continue unchanged, he
added, and the air force would keep providing generalised figures on Russian missile launches.Last month, Russia fired
more than 450 missiles at Ukraine, nearly 200 of them on ballistic trajectories.Asked if the US had responded to his
requests, Zelenskyy said he hopes that he gets the interceptors.“From 1 percent to 5 percent, I have some months and
millions [of] phone calls and anything else,” he said. “I do some things which I can’t even share. It doesn’t
mean that it’s out of the law. But I can’t speak about it.”aj-logoaj-logoaj-logo Advertisement AboutAboutShow
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