Odesa

Ukraine's military forces confirmed a strike on the Stalnoi Kon linear production dispatch station, an oil depot located in Russia's Oryol Oblast, on the night of 13-14 December. The facility, described as one of the largest oil product terminals in the area, sustained significant damage, causing a large fire.

Ukraine's power infrastructure was "under massive enemy attack" on Thursday, the energy minister said, after a countrywide air raid alert was declared due to incoming missiles.

"Once again, the energy sector is under massive enemy attack. Attacks on energy facilities are taking place across Ukraine," German Galushchenko said in a Facebook post.

On the morning of 28 November, Russian forces launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine, targeting multiple regions. The Ukrainian Air Force reported the activity of strategic Tu-95MS bombers from the Olenya airfield in Murmansk Oblast. Initially, four bombers were observed flying in a southeasterly direction, with their number later updated to seven.

The Kremlin accused U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday of escalating the 1,000-day-old war in Ukraine, promising a "palpable" response to any use of U.S. long-range missiles by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia.

Russian forces launched a missile attack on Odesa, Ukraine's largest city on the Black Sea, causing significant destruction and loss of life. The strikes targeted residential areas, leaving at least eight people dead and many more injured, according to local reports. Explosions were heard throughout the city, prompting authorities to urge residents to take shelter.

Russian attacks overnight wounded more than two dozen people in the Ukrainian border city of Kharkiv and killed one in the southern city of Odesa, Ukrainian authorities said on Nov. 8, as Moscow's bombardments escalated.

Russia launched more than 2,000 drone attacks targeting both military and civilian sites across Ukraine last month, as announced today by Ukraine’s armed forces.

A Ukrainian serviceman of the 126th brigade air-defense unit fires by a machine gun during the training in Kherson region, Ukraine, Oct. 4, 2024.

Kiev on Monday said that its forces had struck a large oil terminal overnight on the occupied Crimean peninsula as Moscow claimed the capture of another village in eastern Ukraine.

A ship transporting pipes to Varna, Bulgaria, under a supply contract with the United States was struck during a Russian missile attack on the port of Odesa, according to Maritime.bg. The vessel, the Golden Lion, sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, sustained damage, and two sailors from its crew were injured.

Over the past 24 hours, at least seven people were killed in four separate Russian attacks across southern, southeastern, and eastern Ukraine, local Ukrainian authorities reported.