Russian Attack Kills Three in Odesa as Ukraine Targets Oil Infrastructure
A Russian drone strike killed three civilians in Ukraine's Odesa while Ukrainian forces targeted Russian oil facilities in retaliatory attacks.
A Russian drone attack on Ukraine's port city of Odesa killed two women and a 2-year-old child on Monday, Ukrainian officials reported. The nighttime strike heavily damaged an apartment building, with rescue workers pulling four people from the rubble under floodlights. Eleven people were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman and two children, one less than a year old.
The attack was part of broader Russian strikes that targeted energy infrastructure across multiple Ukrainian regions including Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipro. More than 300,000 households lost electricity in the northern Chernihiv region after distribution facilities were damaged. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched over 2,800 attack drones, nearly 1,350 glide bombs and more than 40 missiles at Ukraine in the past week.
Ukraine conducted retaliatory strikes targeting Russian oil infrastructure, with long-range drones reaching facilities up to 1,500 kilometers inside Russia. Ukrainian forces targeted the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, where eight people including two children were injured and six apartment buildings were damaged. The strikes reportedly targeted the Sheskharis oil terminal at the port, according to unconfirmed media reports.
Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted 50 Ukrainian drones overnight. The Ukrainian strikes come as Russia seeks to boost oil exports after receiving temporary sanctions relief, with Ukrainian officials expressing concern that increased revenue will fund additional weapons purchases.
Separately, Ukrainian forces reportedly regained control of frontline areas in the country's southeast and east, according to the army chief. In Russian-controlled Luhansk region, 41 miners were trapped following what officials described as a Ukrainian strike on mining facilities.