Odesa

The prospect of obtaining a battery of surface-to-air Patriot missiles from the United States allows Greece to reconsider lifting its objections to providing Ukraine with the idling Soviet-made S-300 surface-to-air missiles now based on the island of Crete.

French President Emmanuel Macron's much-anticipated visit to Ukraine, slated for the coming weeks, has faced yet another delay, marking the third postponement of the trip originally scheduled for last month, as reported by Reuters.

As more time goes by, it is becoming increasingly clear that Moscow knew that at the time of the missile strike on the port of Odesa on Wednesday that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were standing just a few hundred meters away.

This was stated by the Deputy President of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev said that Moscow would have hit its target if that was its intention and that it was obvious to "everyone" that there was no planned attack on the convoy, Reuters reported.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis issued a clear message of support for Ukraine n Thursday, a day after a Russian missile missed Ukraine's president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa.

The visit of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to Ukraine on Wednesday had all the makings of a Hollywood thriller, as an explosion from a Russian attack on Odesa, probably with missiles, occurred less than 200 meters from where he stood with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who were at the port at that time.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed the explosion in Ukraine's Odesa on Wednesday as a precision military hit. The attack took place approximately 500 to 800 meters away from visiting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' motorcade.

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, commented on the attack in the Black Sea port of Odesa just before a scheduled meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

Greece will continue to support Ukraine as it fights for its freedom, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Odesa.

An explosion erupted in the Black Sea port of Odesa on Wednesday, just before a scheduled meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Despite this, the meeting proceeded without disruption.