Three killed in overnight attacks on Russian, Ukrainian port cities

Russia’s Novorossiysk ‘endured a horrific night’, with a child killed and dozens of buildings damaged, says local mayor.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.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Russia frees ex-US marine Gilman jailed since 2022list 2 of 3‘Long-range sanctions’: Ukraine hopes strikes cause Russia fear and losseslist 3 of 3Russia bars only party opposing war in Ukraine from parliamentary voteend of listDrone 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.Two killed in Ukraine’s KhersonIn 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.In Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, a Russian attack triggered a blaze at a shopping mall, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov. He shared pictures and a video of a building on fire.The attack cut off ⁠power for some 1,200 consumers in Zaporizhzhia, Fedorov added.