Russian officials said Tuesday a Ukrainian drone attack hit a ferry port in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar, killing at least one person and injuring at least five other people.
The attack struck Port Kavkaz, Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram. He said a fire erupted on a ferry but had been brought under control. Damage to the ferry was not immediately clear.
The Ukrainian military said its attack "significantly damaged" what it called a railway ferry. The port is on a strip of land between the Crimean Peninsula and the Russian mainland.
"The occupiers used this ferry to transport railway cars, vehicles, and containers for military purposes," Ukraine's General Staff said on social media.
The claims of both sides could not be immediately confirmed.
Reports of damage from Ukrainian, Russian drones
Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday it destroyed 25 Ukrainian aerial drones, including 21 over the Black Sea and Russia-occupied Crimea.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, said on Telegram that Ukrainian drones had struck vehicles in several villages, injuring at least five people.
The governor of Bryansk reported no damage or injuries after air defenses shot down two Ukrainian drones.
Officials in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine said Tuesday a Russian drone attack damaged an energy facility, knocking out power to 50,000 people.
The Ukrainian military said the country's air defenses shot down seven of eight Russian drones deployed in overnight attacks, and that a Russian guided missile did not reach its target.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said Tuesday on Telegram that a Russian exploding drone injured three people and damaged several homes in Marhanets. An earlier drone attack hit the city of Nikopol, but there were no casualties, Lysak said.
Russia expands definition of 'undesirable'
Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation Tuesday that would expand Russia's ability to list an organization as undesirable. Any organization affiliated with a foreign government could be listed as undesirable, and its members could receive prison sentences, following Tuesday's vote.
In order to become law, the new legislation must also be approved by parliament's upper house and signed by President Vladimir Putin.
The current "undesirable law" allows for an organization to receive the designation if foreign governments founded the organization or participated in it.
Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff, spoke with Phil Gordon, national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, by telephone on Tuesday. It was the first time the two have talked since Harris emerged as the likely Democratic candidate in the U.S. presidential election in November, following President Joe Biden's decision not to seek reelection.
Zelenskyy's office said the two officials discussed additional U.S. support for Ukraine and "the increasing number of Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and communities, especially on energy infrastructure."
Some information for this story was provided by Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
