Russian Drone Attack Kills Three in Odesa as Ukraine Strikes Oil Facilities in Novorossiysk

A Russian drone attack struck Odesa, Ukraine's southern port city, on Monday, killing two women and a 2-year-old child. The strike damaged an apartment block, with rescuers pulling four people from the rubble under floodlights. Eleven individuals were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman and two children under one year old.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported the casualties in a post on X. The attack is part of broader Russian barrages that hit energy infrastructure in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Dnipro regions overnight. More than 300,000 households in Chernihiv lost electricity after distribution facilities were damaged, according to the regional power utility.

Over the past week, Russia launched more than 2,800 attack drones, nearly 1,350 glide bombs, and over 40 missiles at Ukraine, Zelenskyy stated.

Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Novorossiysk, Russia's key Black Sea port for oil exports, in a nighttime operation. Russia's Defense Ministry reported that air defenses downed 50 Ukrainian drones. Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev stated that eight people, including two children, were injured in the attacks, which damaged six apartment buildings and two private houses.

Unconfirmed media reports indicated the drones struck the Sheskharis oil terminal. Visuals from the scene showed fireballs and blazes, with small arms and anti-aircraft tracers in the sky over southern Russia.

“Russia has no intention of stopping” its invasion.”

Last week, Ukrainian drones hit oil facilities in the Gulf of Finland in northwest Russia.