UK: 'Realistic possibility' Russian anti-radar missile hit civilian ship

Soldiers of Ukraine's National Guard 1st brigade Bureviy (Hurricane) train in the north of Ukraine, Nov. 8, 2023. [AP Photo]

A harbor pilot was killed and three crew members and a port worker were injured Wednesday with a Russian anti-radar missile, likely an AS-17 Krypton, hit a civilian Liberian-flagged cargo ship at Pivdennyi port, in Odesa, Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense said Friday.

The ship was loading freight iron ore headed to China, a Russian ally, according to Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry.