President Volodymr Zelenskiy said Russian missile strikes on Odesa was blatant "barbarism" showing Moscow could not be trusted to implement a landmark new deal to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports. A Ukrainian government minister said preparations continued to restart shipments.

DIPLOMACY, ECONOMY

* The U.N., EU, U.S., Britain, Germany and Italy condemned the strikes. Turkey's defence minister said Russian officials had told Ankara that Moscow had "nothing to do" with the Odesa strikes.

* A senior U.S. Congressional delegation, including Representative Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, met Zelenskiy in Kyiv and promised to try to ensure continued support in the war.

* The EU is seeking additional gas supplies from Nigeria as the bloc prepares for potential Russian supply cuts, a European Commission energy official said.

FIGHTING

* Ukraine's defence ministry urged citizens in and around the Russian-occupied southern city of Enerhoder, home to a nuclear power station, to reveal where Moscow's troops were living and who among the population was collaborating with Russian officials.

* Ukrainian forces are gradually moving into the eastern Kherson region, which was taken over by Russia at the start of the war, Zelenskiy said. The Russian-installed authority said a bridge had been hit by Western-supplied HIMARS rockets but the bridge still worked, Russia's TASS news agency reported.

Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield reports.

Reuters