Russia and Ukraine have exchanged deadly overnight drone strikes, with attacks leaving at least four people dead in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson and areas along Russia’s Black Sea coast, according to regional officials. According to a report by Al Jazeera, the overnight attacks, which occurred between Tuesday and……
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged deadly overnight drone strikes, with attacks leaving at least four people dead in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson and areas along Russia’s Black Sea coast, according to regional officials.
According to a report by Al Jazeera, the overnight attacks, which occurred between Tuesday and Wednesday, also damaged residential buildings, port facilities and other infrastructure in several locations.
In Russia’s Novorossiysk, a Ukrainian drone strike killed a child, injured another child and a woman, and damaged dozens of buildings, including homes, according to the city’s mayor, Andrei Kravchenko.
Kravchenko described the attack as a “horrific night”, while Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said eight people were injured in the city.
The Novorossiysk grain terminal was also damaged in the attack, according to its owner, Demetra Holding.
Kondratyev said another person was killed after drone debris fell into the garden of a house in the village of Volna.
Ukrainian drones also caused damage to several homes in Russian-occupied Crimea, according to local authorities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s forces used jet-powered drones, missiles and unmanned naval systems to strike a naval base in Novorossiysk.
He said the attack hit “air defence positions, piers and seaport infrastructure”.
Russia’s Defence Ministry, however, said its forces had intercepted and destroyed 502 Ukrainian drones overnight.
In Ukraine, Russian drone strikes killed two people and injured at least two others, including an elderly woman, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson regional military administration.
A separate Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia triggered a fire at a shopping mall, Governor Ivan Fedorov said, releasing images and video of the burning building.
The attack also disrupted electricity supplies to about 1,200 consumers in the southeastern city, Fedorov added.
In Odesa, Ukraine’s largest seaport, another Russian strike damaged infrastructure, according to Serhiy Lysak, head of the city’s military administration.
Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed its forces had struck a fuel depot at the port, alleging that it was being used to supply the Ukrainian military.
The latest strikes come amid an escalation in attacks on critical infrastructure, with Moscow recently targeting Ukrainian food, agricultural and warehouse facilities following repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy, port and logistics sites.
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Kyiv had submitted proposals to US negotiators as part of efforts to develop a plan to end the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukrainian officials cited by the Financial Times also said Kyiv had agreed to halt drone attacks on oil tankers using Russia’s Novorossiysk port following a request from United States Vice President JD Vance late last month.
Meanwhile, negotiations aimed at ending the war have largely stalled amid wider geopolitical developments.
Ukraine has repeatedly called for a ceasefire after years of fighting, while Russia has said it wants a settlement but insists that any agreement must address what it describes as the conflict’s “root causes” and involve Ukraine ceding four regions claimed by Moscow.
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