Three killed in overnight attacks on Russian, Ukrainian port cities

Russia and Ukraine have traded deadly overnight drone attacks, killing three people in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson and Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, according to regional officials.

A Ukrainian drone attack on Novorossiysk overnight Tuesday into Wednesday killed a child, injured another child and woman, and damaged dozens of buildings, including homes, reported mayor Andrei Kravchenko.

Drone strikes also damaged the ⁠Novorossiysk ⁠grain terminal, according to the terminal’s owner, Demetra Holding.

“Novorossiysk endured a horrific night,” Kravchenko wrote in a post on Telegram.

In the broader Krasnodar region, where Novorossiysk is located, eight people were injured, according to the regional governor, Veniamin Kondratyev.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian drones damaged several homes in Russia-occupied Crimea, said local governor Mikhail Razvozhayev.

Russia’s ⁠Ministry of Defence ⁠said ‌it downed and ⁠destroyed a total of 502 Ukrainian ⁠drones overnight.

In Ukraine, a Russian attack using Shahed drones killed two people and injured at least two others, including an elderly woman, according to the head of the region’s military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.