Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack damaged a ship in port, apartment buildings and an oil depot in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, injuring three crew members of the vessel, Russian officials said. Russian air defence forces shot down or intercepted 216 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Defence Ministry said.

Ukrainian drones attacked oil infrastructure at Russia’s giant Black Sea port of Novorossiysk overnight, as Moscow’s forces launched a massive air strike on Kyiv that killed three and damaged several residential buildings.

Their targets are strategic: oil refineries, fuel depots, and military logistics hubs. Since the summer, Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has ramped up dramatically, pounding energy infrastructure across Russia and stretching Moscow’s air defenses thin.

Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday. The report comes as Russia and

Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday.

Russia, meantime, attacked the city of Kamianske in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk region with drones overnight, injuring eight people, the head of the regional military administration, Vladyslav Haivanenko, said on his official Telegram channel.

KYIV: Nearly every district of the capital came under a “massive” assault on Friday morning, the city’s mayor said, with a fatality reported hours after AFP journalists