Ukrainian drone strike hits Russian sea terminal

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person, injured three others and set off a fire at a sea terminal in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region, Russian officials said Saturday, as Kyiv pressed its campaign against Russian energy and military infrastructure far from the front line.

Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram that falling drone debris sparked a fire at part of a facility in the Temryuk district. He did not identify the terminal, but Russian news outlets reported that a Black Sea export terminal in the village of Volna, used to transport crude oil, petroleum products and liquefied gas, was damaged.

Ukraine’s SBU security service said Saturday that one of its latest attacks targeted the Tamanneftegaz terminal in Krasnodar, calling it “the largest liquefied hydrocarbon transshipment complex in southern Russia.” The SBU said the strikes hit five fuel tanks and two oil loading stands, igniting fires around the terminal’s freight transport depot and storage facilities.

The agency vowed to continue attacks on Russia’s oil and gas sector, describing it as “a source of funding for the war against Ukraine.”

“Oil revenues are turned into missiles, drones, and ammunition used to attack Ukrainian cities,” the SBU said. “Therefore, the SBU will continue systematically depriving the Russian war machine of resources to wage war.”

Ukraine’s General Staff did not comment on the Krasnodar strike Saturday, CBS News reported, but said Ukrainian forces had hit an oil preparation and pumping station overnight in Russia’s Volgograd region, as well as targets in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. Ukraine’s military said the Volgograd strike was near the town of Kotovo and caused a fire; Russian authorities also said a strike caused a fire in an industrial part of the area.

The strikes follow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement that his forces had hit several military and energy infrastructure sites deep inside Russia, including a military factory he said supplied components for Russian drones and missiles. Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo long-range missiles struck the facility in Cheboksary, in Russia’s Chuvashiya region, more than 900 kilometers, or 560 miles, from the front line.

More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, the front line, stretching more than 1,000 kilometers, or 620 miles, has remained largely static as drone warfare has slowed advances. Both sides have increasingly turned to long-range strikes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Ukrainian strikes are “causing us damage,” but said Russia would recover quickly and escalate its own attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, Al Jazeera reported. Last week, Putin vowed to strengthen air defenses after Ukrainian attacks set fire to an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and hit a nearby naval base.

Inside Ukraine, Russian attacks injured nine people in the Dnipropetrovsk region and set fire to a local marketplace, regional authorities said. Regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said on Telegram that Russia attacked three districts more than 20 times with drones and aerial bombs. Six people were hospitalized, including a man in critical condition, he said.

Separately, the International Atomic Energy Agency said power had been restored to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after a strike several days earlier cut off its external electricity supply.

Diplomatic efforts remain uncertain. Al Jazeera, citing AFP, reported that U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to participate in a Group of Seven working session with Zelenskyy in France on Tuesday. CBS News, citing a senior U.S. administration official, reported that Trump was not scheduled to hold one-on-one talks with Zelenskyy at the summit in Evian-les-Bains. The two leaders last met in December at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.