Overview
- Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported 8 dead and 27 wounded, while Odesa governor Oleh Kiper cited 7 dead and 15 wounded after the late-Friday strike.
- Local authorities said ballistic missiles hit port facilities, igniting trucks in a parking area and damaging cars, with some of the wounded on a bus at the strike’s epicenter.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it struck transport, storage and energy targets over the previous day but did not directly acknowledge this specific attack.
- Ukraine’s General Staff said drones hit a drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field, the patrol ship Okhotnik in the Caspian Sea, and a radar site in Crimea, with damage still being assessed and no immediate comment from Russia or Lukoil.
- The strike followed earlier warnings from President Vladimir Putin about expanding attacks on Ukrainian ports, while U.S. officials hosted a Kremlin envoy in Florida for talks and EU leaders approved a large interest-free loan for Ukraine.