Six killed in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine as Kyiv damages oil tanker and terminal in Tuapse

Four people, including two children, were killed in overnight Russian drone strikes on eastern Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, causing fires to break out and damaging residential buildings and infrastructure in multiple areas, the head of the regional military administration, Vladyslav Hayvanenko, said on Sunday.

In southern Ukraine’s Odesa region, two people were killed and three more were injured. In addition, a fire broke out in a truck park, regional governor Oleg Kiper said on Sunday, adding that all fires had since been extinguished and calling the attack against Odesa’s civilian population a “war crime”.

In the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, three people were injured in overnight Russian strikes, including a 91-year-old man and an 87-year-old woman, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.

In total, Russia attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M missiles and 79 drones, of which about 50 were Shahed drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Sixty-seven drones were shot down or neutralised, with 12 drones and one missile recorded as having hit six locations.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the city of Tuapse in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region with drones on Saturday night, fragments of which landed on an oil tanker in the port, causing a fire to break out and forcing the evacuation of its crew, according to Russian military’s operational headquarters in the Krasnodar region.

Footage from eyewitnesses shows at least three fires, according to Telegram news channel ASTRA, two at the city’s deep-water port complex and the other at a oil loading facility.

The Russian Defence Ministry reported that 164 Ukrainian drones were destroyed overnight, 32 of which were shot down over the Krasnodar region, another 26 over Russian-annexed Crimea, 20 over the Bryansk region, and nine each over the Volgograd, Rostov and Oryol regions.