Ukraine’s military intelligence says it struck two large landing ships in Sevastopol Bay in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Overnight, both sides launched strikes: Ukrainian drones targeted Russian assets in Black Sea ports, while Russia struck several regions across Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv.
Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence unit said it hit two Russian landing ships and destroyed a radar station in Sevastopol Bay. The agency said the vessels, each valued at about $150m, were successfully struck and radar equipment was destroyed.
In Russia, Ukrainian drones attacked the port of Tuapse, killing at least one person, wounding another and damaging transport infrastructure, regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev said. The strike was the second on the port in three days, coming hours after a blaze from a previous attack had been extinguished.
Russia’s Defence Ministry reported that air defences destroyed 112 Ukrainian drones overnight.
Ukraine reported a series of Russian attacks on its territory in the same period, including strikes in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy and Zaporizhia regions. Drones struck a car in Putyvl in Sumy region, injuring three women, and hit two homes in Kyiv’s Brovary district, damaging them and injuring one person, Ukrainian officials said.
“My night, the enemy is again attacking the Kyiv region with drones. Under the sights are peaceful people, homes,” Kyiv regional military administration head Mykola Kalashnyk said.
Russian attacks also damaged railway infrastructure in Kharkiv, according to Interfax-Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said that in the past 24 hours fighting in Kherson killed one person and injured seven, while four people were wounded in Zaporizhia.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than four years ago, Moscow’s forces have hit civilian areas almost daily, sometimes with large assaults. The United Nations estimates more than 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have died in the strikes.
There have been several rounds of US-brokered negotiations in recent months, but they have not yielded an agreement to halt the fighting. The diplomatic process was further stalled after the outbreak of the US-Israel war on Iran. Even before that, talks made little progress because of disagreements over territory: Ukraine has proposed freezing the conflict along current front lines, while Russia demands control of the whole of Donetsk region, including areas still held by Ukraine — a demand Kyiv calls unacceptable.