Ukrainian forces also strike two shadow fleet tankers near port of Novorossiysk, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.
Ukrainian forces have launched a drone attack on the Russian Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, the governor says, as Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of killing civilians in overnight air raids.
There was no oil spill caused by Sunday’s attack on Primorsk, a major oil-exporting outlet, but it caused a fire in the town that was extinguished, Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko said. More than 60 drones were downed overnight over the northwestern region, he added.
“These tankers had been actively used to transport oil – not anymore,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram. “Ukraine’s long-range capabilities will continue to be developed comprehensively – at sea, in the air, and on land.”
The two neighbours have been launching hundreds of explosive-packed drones at each other on a near-daily basis throughout the four-year war.
Other Russian regions also reported drone attacks on Saturday and Sunday. Moscow Governor Andrei Vorobyov said on Saturday evening that a 77-year-old man died in a village in a drone strike.
Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said four drones were downed on their way to the Russian capital.
Vasily Anokhin, the governor of the western region of Smolensk, said three people, including a child, were injured on Sunday in a drone attack on an apartment block.
Attacks in Ukraine
Russian drone strikes on Ukraine killed at least three people across the country, local officials said on Sunday.
Attacks on southern Ukraine’s Odesa region, home to key export terminals, killed two people, including a truck driver at a port, Governor Oleh Kiper said on social media.
“Enemy drones hit three residential buildings, and two more were damaged. … Facilities and equipment for the port infrastructure were also damaged,” he said.
Elsewhere, Russian strikes on the front-line region of Kherson in southern Ukraine also killed one person, officials said.
Russia fired 268 drones and one ballistic missile in the overnight attacks, Ukraine’s air force said.
In eastern Ukraine, Russian troops were inching towards the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine’s top army official said on Saturday.