Odesa: A Russian missile missed Ukraine’s president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres on Wednesday when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa.

“It seems to me that we have not only heard, we have seen this strike today,” President Volodymyr Zelensky told a news conference alongside Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

The attack occurred at an estimated 500 to 800 metres from the delegations, sources said.

The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port city as Zelensky and Kyriakos Mitsotakis ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city.

Mitsotakis said the delegations were getting into their vehicles when they heard the blast, which he called a “vivid reminder” that Odesa was gripped by the war with Russia.

Mitsotakis told reporters the strike landed “very close” to the motorcade.

It is one thing to hear about the war and “quite another to experience war firsthand,” Mitsotakis said.

Zelensky said: “You see who we’re dealing with, they don’t care where to hit.”

Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesman for Ukraine’s navy, told the national news agency Ukrinform that the intended target was Odesa’s port infrastructure. Five people were killed, he said.