The Ukrainian authorities claimed to have attacked a Russian corvette equipped with missile launchers, among other targets hit in the port of Primorsk, located on the shores of the Baltic Sea. For its part, the Russian army launched more than 260 drones against the southern regions of Odessa and Mikolaiv. On the other hand, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that a drone attacked the external radiation control laboratory of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, controlled by Russia.

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Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian port of Primorsk, on the Baltic Sea, on the night of Saturday, May 2 to Sunday, May 3, as part of a wave of attacks launched by kyiv against various parts of Russia.

The local governor, Alexandre Drozdenko, reported that more than 60 drones were shot down overnight in the northwest of the country.

Among the targets hit by kyiv forces is a Russian corvette equipped with missile launchers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“Another Russian carrier of Kalibr missiles out of combat,” celebrated the Ukrainian head of state in a message published on his social networks. He added that, in the same operation, his forces hit an oil tanker from the Russian ghost fleet and a patrol vessel.

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According to Volodymyr Zelensky, “significant damage” has also been caused to the port's oil terminal. “Each of these results further limits Russia's war potential,” said the Ukrainian president.

The Russian port of Primorsk is one of the largest oil export ports in Russia, located near Saint Petersburg. It has a processing capacity of one million barrels per day. He has been attacked several times in recent months.

Moscow and Belgorod regions also targeted

Other Russian regions were also targets of Ukrainian drone attacks on Saturday and Sunday, according to local authorities.

The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobiov, declared on Saturday night that a 77-year-old man had died in a village after one of these attacks. For his part, Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of the Russian capital, reported that four of these unmanned aircraft had been shot down.

Elsewhere on the front, the governor of the western Smolensk region near Belarus said three people, including a child, were injured on Sunday after a drone attack on a residential building.

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Additionally, in the border region of Belgorod, two men died after a drone attack on their vehicle, local authorities reported.

Also on Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky indicated that his military forces had attacked two oil tankers of the Russian ghost fleet at the entrance to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea.

“These tankers were actively used to transport oil, that is no longer the case,” Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging application. “Ukraine's long-range capabilities will continue to be developed comprehensively: at sea, in the air and on land,” he added.

New wave of Russian drone attacks against the Odessa and Mikolaiv regions

In parallel, and while the prospects for peace negotiations between kyiv and Moscow seem to take a backseat since the start of the war between the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28, 2026, Russia also maintains its offensive against Ukrainian territory.

In the last few hours, Moscow launched 268 drones and bombed the city of Mikolaiv, in southern Ukraine, with a ballistic missile, according to local authorities.

They added that the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down or neutralized a total of 249 drones in the north, south, west and east of the country. However, the ballistic missile hit Mikolaiv, leaving no deaths or injuries.

The deadliest attack took place in the Odessa region, where two people died after Russian bombings against the port city in the south of the country, according to local emergency services.

A unit of the Zaporizhia power plant suffered an attack

In addition, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that a drone had attacked the external radiation control laboratory of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

In a message published on the

He also did not specify who attacked the plant, although Russian authorities stated that it was a Ukrainian drone.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi demanded access to the site and warned that “any attack near an atomic facility may entail risks for nuclear security.”

It should be remembered that the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant does not produce electricity as a result of the risks involved in the ongoing war against Russia. However, it is necessary to keep it connected to the electrical grid to maintain the stability of your system.

With EFE and Reuters

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