Ukrainian drones attacked the Sheskharis oil terminal at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in Russia’s Krasnodar region over Sunday night, according to online channels monitoring the war. Russia’s military said early on Monday that air defence units downed 148 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period and nearly half a million households were blacked out by air attacks. On Sunday evening drones killed one person in Russia’s border region of Belgorod and hit an apartment building in Russia’s Novorossiysk, Russian authorities claimed. It came as the Institute for the Study of War assessed that Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure over the past two weeks, “focusing on the Russian Baltic Sea port and oil infrastructure in Leningrad oblast critical to Russian oil exports”. “Russian milbloggers have previously complained about the Russian inability to repair damaged facilities due to parts sanctions and Russian air defence failures.”A Russian strike on Odesa city killed three people including a child, a Ukrainian military official said on Monday.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2026 03:35 UTC