Rephrase “U.S. President Joe Biden hosted Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Pope Francis’ peace envoy, for talks about Vatican efforts to provide humanitarian aid in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government is working to “preserve Ukraine’s global role as a guarantor of food security, our maritime access to the global market, and jobs for Ukrainians in ports and in the agricultural industry” following Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russian forces carried out airstrikes on the Odesa region in southern Ukraine for a second consecutive night. Oleh Kiper, the regional governor, urged people to stay in shelters and said air defense systems were activated to repel the attacks. After the first night of aerial attacks, which hit Odesa and nearby Mykolaiv, Russia said it was acting in retaliation for an attack Monday that damaged a key bridge linking Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. Russia has used the bridge as a major supply route supporting its forces in their invasion of Ukraine. The Russian defense ministry said in a statement Tuesday it targeted facilities involved in what it called “terrorist acts” carried out by seaborne drones, including a shipyard near Odesa and Ukrainian fuel depots. The Odesa region is the site of multiple ports that were part of the Black Sea Grain Initiative brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain to the world market. Russia withdrew from the deal earlier this week.