The assault came as Ukraine’s president announced that two more ships had traveled through a temporary corridor established by Kyiv after Moscow pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal.
The animals are dying in droves in the Black Sea, and Ukrainian officials are documenting the deaths, hoping to prosecute Russia for the war’s ecological toll.
The announcement came on the same day that a cargo ship stranded in the Odesa port became the first to venture into the turbulent waters of the Black Sea despite Moscow’s threats to treat vessels in the area as hostile.