Russia attacks Ukrainian port with ballistic missiles, killing 8 and injuring dozens

Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile attack on port infrastructure in Odessa, southern Ukraine, on Friday night, the Ukrainian Emergency Service said.

Some of the injured were on a bus at the epicenter of the strike, the service said in a Telegram post on Saturday. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot and cars were also damaged.

The port was attacked with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, head of the Odessa region.

Moscow did not immediately acknowledge reports of the deadly attack. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday morning that over the previous day it had attacked “unspecified transportation and storage infrastructure used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” along with energy facilities and those supplying The Kyiv war effort.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian drones attacked a Russian oil platform, a military patrol ship and other facilities, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.

The Friday night attack hit the Russian patrol boat “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted on the Telegram messaging app.

The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.

A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also affected. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also attacked a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of ​​Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

There was no immediate comment from the Russian government or Lukoil. The company is one of the two large Russian oil companies, along with the state-owned Gazprom, a target of recent US sanctions that aim to deprive Moscow of the oil export revenues that help it sustain the war.

Kyiv has used similar arguments to justify months of long-range attacks against Russian oil infrastructurewhich it says directly finances and fuels the Kremlin’s all-out invasion, which will soon enter its fifth year.

Peace talks aimed at ending the war are still ongoing. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law. Jared Kushner They will meet Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin envoy who heads Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, in Miami on Saturday. News themezone previously reported. The meeting follows meetings with Ukrainian and European officials in Germany to discuss security guarantees and other aspects of the proposed US plan to end the war.