Ukraine Hits Russian Oil Port in Primorsk and Tankers in Baltic and Black Seas Amid Ongoing Conflict

Ukraine launched a wave of strikes against Russian oil targets on Sunday, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude. A nighttime drone strike sparked a blaze at Russia’s largest oil exporting port on the Baltic Sea, the port of Primorsk, according to Russian regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko.

The port, operated by Russia’s state oil firm Transneft, is capable of handling hundreds of thousands of barrels per day. Primorsk was targeted multiple times in March and lies over 620 miles from Ukraine, between the Russian-Finnish border and Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg.

Local Gov. Drozdenko stated that the drone strike did not cause an oil spill. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukrainian forces destroyed several military and other targets, while also inflicting significant damage on oil port infrastructure.

Zelensky wrote in a Telegram post on Sunday: “One more Russian carrier of Kalibr missiles is out of action. ” According to Zelensky, Ukrainian drones hit a Karakurt missile ship, a patrol boat, and a tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow oil fleet, used to evade Western sanctions and price caps on Russian energy.

Ukrainian forces struck two more “shadow fleet” tankers near the entrance of the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

Zelensky said on Sunday: “These tankers were actively used to transport oil. ” The operation was led by the chief of Ukraine’s general staff, Andrii Hnatov, according to Zelensky. Moscow did not immediately acknowledge Zelensky’s claims regarding either strike.

Ukrainian officials argue that oil revenue directly funds Moscow’s full-scale invasion of the country, now in its fifth year. Two people were killed and three others wounded as Russian drones struck Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported. The attack damaged three residential buildings.

The drones hit port infrastructure, causing a fire that was later extinguished by emergency teams. Four houses were damaged by a Russian drone strike in Chornomorsk in Ukraine’s Odesa region on May 3, 2026, according to Reuters. Nighttime Russian strikes wounded six people in the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine, the agency said.

A passenger bus transporting 40 children was damaged, but no one inside was injured. A gas station was hit by a strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 2, 2026, according to Sergey Kozlov/EPA/Shutterstock. In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike west of Moscow killed a 77-year-old man near the town of Volokolamsk, some 75 miles from central Moscow, local Gov.

Andrei Vorobyov reported. Vorobyov added that six drones were shot down in the Moscow region, which surrounds but does not include the Russian capital. At least five more drones were downed on the approach to Moscow itself, according to mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

A man, woman and child were injured after Ukrainian drone debris flew into an apartment block in Russia’s western Smolensk region, according to local Gov. Vasiliy Anokhin. Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that a total of 334 Ukrainian UAVs were downed overnight over Russia and occupied Crimea.

Russia attacked Ukraine with 269 drones and ballistic missiles overnight into Sunday, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Ukrainian forces shot down and repelled 249 drones. Hits from ballistic missiles and 19 drones were recorded in 15 locations.