KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A Russian drone attack on Ukraine\u2019s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia\u2019s key Black Sea port for oil exports.<\/p>\n
The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and a 2-year-old child, officials said. Rescuers working under floodlights pulled four people from the rubble.<\/p>\n
Eleven people were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman and two children \u2014 the youngest less than a year old, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
Russia has pounded civilian areas of Ukraine since it invaded its neighbor just over four years ago, killing more than 15,000 people, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n
It has also taken aim at Ukraine\u2019s power grid, and the Russia overnight barrages also hit energy infrastructure in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipro regions, Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n
More than 300,000 households were without electricity in the northern Chernihiv region after distribution facilities were damaged in attacks, according to the regional power utility.<\/p>\n
Over the past week, Russia has launched at Ukraine more than 2,800 attack drones, nearly 1,350 powerful glide bombs and more than 40 missiles of various types, according to Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy expressed concern in a weekend interview with The Associated Press that the Iran war is draining stockpiles of weapons that Ukraine needs to defend itself, especially American-made Patriot air defense systems that can stop missiles.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy said Monday that the country\u2019s partners \u201cneed to strengthen air defense together so that the interception rate of drones and missiles continues to increase.\u201d<\/p>\n
With U.S.-led peace efforts stalled, Zelenskyy added: \u201cRussia has no intention of stopping\u201d its invasion.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has fought back by developing its own long-range drones, which now reach targets some 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) inside Russia.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has used them recently to hammer Russian oil facilities as Moscow looks to boost its exports after the Trump administration gave it a temporary waiver from sanctions to ease supply constraints. Kyiv officials complain that Russia will use the additional revenue on new weapons to hit Ukraine harder.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 50 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n
Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said that eight people, including two children, were injured in a series of Ukrainian drone attacks on Novorossiisk, one of Russia\u2019s largest Black Sea ports. The attack damaged six apartment buildings and two private houses, he said.<\/p>\n
Unconfirmed media reports said the drones targeted the Sheskharis oil terminal at the Black Sea port.<\/p>\n
Last week, Ukraine\u2019s drones struck oil facilities in the Gulf of Finland, in northwest Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 A Russian drone attack on Ukraine\u2019s southern port city of Odesa killed two women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[145,91232,23681,59373,59371,86159,61262,91231,82,84,83,10487,91233,90305],"class_list":{"0":"post-237036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-odesa","10":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","11":"tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","12":"tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","13":"tag-product-32502-ap-online-europe-news","14":"tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","15":"tag-russia-ukraine-war-odesa-drones-oil","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","18":"tag-san-antonio-news","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-veniamin-kondratyev","21":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}