Volodymyr Zelenskyy said an overnight Ukrainian drone attack hit Novorossiysk, Anapa, Gelendzhik and the Temryuk region in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Veniamin Kondratyev said hundreds of Ukrainian drones took part, putting the Black Sea coastal area at the center of the latest exchange.
The scale matters because the attack reached four named locations at once, including Novorossiysk, while the separate Russian overnight attacks in Ukraine hit Zaporizhzhia and Odesa. That pairing leaves the Black Sea front tied to pressure in both directions on the same night.
Krasnodar region overnight
Kondratyev said hundreds of Ukrainian drones attacked the four locations overnight. The statement places the main strike across Novorossiysk, Anapa, Gelendzhik and the Temryuk region rather than at a single point, which points to a broad reach across the Krasnodar region.
For residents and local authorities in those places, the immediate issue is not only where the drones flew but how far the attack spread along the coast. The information now available stops at the list of places and the number of drones, without giving a damage tally for any one site.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Black Sea
Zelenskyy said the attack damaged Russia’s Black Sea naval stronghold. He linked the overnight strike to a wider contest around the Black Sea, where Novorossiysk carries added weight because of Russia’s naval presence there.
That account matters because it narrows the story to one operational question: whether the drone attack disrupted a military location, a civilian area, or both. The current record does not specify the damage in Novorossiysk or the other attacked places, so the effect has to be read from the scope of the strike itself rather than from a damage report.
Zaporizhzhia and Odesa
The same night carried separate Russian attacks into Ukraine. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said a Russian overnight attack hit a shopping mall in Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday, while another Russian attack in Odesa caused a fire in one apartment on the fifth floor of a multi-story residential building.
Those reports keep the focus on the immediate exchange rather than any broader shift in the war. A reader following the overnight fighting now has a clear picture of the hit areas: four places in the Krasnodar region on one side, and a mall in Zaporizhzhia plus an apartment fire in Odesa on the other.
The next move from either Russia or Ukraine has not been laid out in the available facts, so the most concrete follow-up is the damage assessment in Novorossiysk, Anapa, Gelendzhik and the Temryuk region. For now, the overnight strike stands as a broad drone attack by Ukraine and a separate set of Russian attacks on Zaporizhzhia and Odesa on Wednesday.
