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Cargo ships struck in Odesa ports as Russia widens Black Sea campaign against Ukraine's grain corridor
Russian Geran-series drones hit commercial vessels at Mykolaiv and Chornomorsk on 18 July 2026. The Russian MoD framed both strikes as legitimate attacks on military cargo; the underlying evidence base for that framing is, at this hour, one-sided.

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This editorial synthesis draws on the following public wire/social posts:
- https://t.me/AMK_Mapping
- https://t.me/AMK_Mapping
- https://t.me/wfwitness
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahed-136
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_grain_corridor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geran-2
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