Russia launches deadly missile strike on civilian ship at Ukraine’s Black Sea port

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Kyiv CNN — A Russian missile struck a cargo ship as it docked in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, killing the pilot and injuring four others, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine’s southern military command said a Russian tactical aircraft in the Black Sea launched an anti-radar missile at the ship on Wednesday afternoon. “The rocket hit the superstructure of a civilian vessel under the flag of Liberia, at the moment of its entry into the port,” Operational Command South said in a statement on Telegram. The ship’s 43-year-old pilot was killed, and three Filipino crew members and a port...