The Russian region of Krasnodar on the Black Sea has come under attack, local Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said early on Saturday, hours after Ukraine reported a large-scale drone strike on the city of Kharkhiv.
The Russian port city of Novorossiysk had been particularly badly hit, Kondratyev wrote on Telegram. There had been a fire at a grain terminal and damage to three blocks of flats.
According to the mayor Andrei Kravchenko, five people were injured, including two children.
The Russian Defence Ministry said that 170 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted over five Russian regions and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed in 2014.
The military data cannot be verified in detail, but the numbers allow conclusions to be drawn about the scale of the attacks.
Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for more than three years.
As part of its defence campaign, it also repeatedly attacks targets in Russia. The damage and casualties are far smaller than the devastating consequences of the Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory.
Ukrainian authorities in the city of Kharkhiv said overnight that almost 50 people had been injured in a large-scale attack.
Regional military administrator Oleh Syniehubov said that Russia used 11 bombs and 52 drones of various types to hit 12 locations in four separate districts of the city.
According to Syniehubov, residential buildings, civilian infrastructure and cars were damaged. The information ffrom the Ukrainian side could not initially be independently verified.
The Ukrainian air force wrote on Telegram in the morning that Russia had shot two ballistic missiles and used 183 drones. Of these, 77 had been shot down.
“There were no military targets, nor could there have been,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in a social media post reacting to the attack.
“While the world hesitates with decisions, nearly every night in Ukraine turns into a nightmare, costing lives,” he added.
First responders help a man with a bandaged head outside an apartment block damaged by a large-scale Russian drone attack in Zaporizhzhia. Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/dpa
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