Russia says grain deal stands despite missile attack on Ukraine's Odesa

By Pavel Polityuk and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Russia on Monday brushed aside Western and Ukrainian alarm that a missile strike by its forces on Ukraine's port of Odesa could derail a U.N.-brokered deal aimed at easing global food shortages by resuming grain exports from the Black Sea region. The Kremlin said Saturday's strike - denounced by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as "barbarism" - had only targeted military infrastructure and would not impact the grain export arrangements in the deal reached on Friday in Istanbul. A global wheat shortage and soaring European energy prices ar...