One person killed in Ukrainian attack on ferry in Russian port of Kavkaz

One person was killed and others injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a ferry in a port in southern Russia, the regional governor said.

Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratiev said the ferry caught fire in the port of Caucasus, but there was no danger of the fire spreading.

The port is just a few kilometers from the Kerch Bridge, which enables road and rail traffic between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

“Unfortunately, there are injured and dead among the crew and port personnel,” Kondratyev said.

He added that rescue workers were on site.

At the end of May, Ukraine attacked the same area, hitting an oil terminal near the port of Caucasus.

The area around the Russian-built bridge across the Kerch Strait has been repeatedly attacked by Ukrainian forces since the large-scale Russian invasion in 2022.

Russian Navy ships stationed in Crimea have been sunk or severely damaged. Earlier this month, the head of the Ukrainian Navy said the Russian Black Sea Fleet had been forced to move almost all of its warships from occupied Crimea to other ports.

In another nighttime development, Ukrainian air defenses shot down seven Shahed combat drones and a Russian-launched cruise missile.

The Ukrainian Energy Ministry said a Russian attack drone struck a key infrastructure facility in the Sumy region, cutting off electricity supplies to 50,000 consumers.

The night before, the head of the military administration of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, Oleh Syniehubov, said that an educational institution had been damaged in a Russian attack on the settlement of Derhachi north of the city of Kharkiv.

The Russian Defense Ministry has now stated that about The attack claimed the lives of 50 foreign “trainers and mercenaries” without any evidence other than a video of the alleged attack. No word was said about casualties on Monday.

Meanwhile, Russian forces shot down 25 Ukrainian drones in the west of the country and over Crimea, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Tuesday.

The night before, the ministry had announced that it had shot down over 85 Ukrainian drones.