Database of Russian Attacks on Black Sea Ports in January-July 2025

​​

The Monitoring Group of the BlackSeaNews and the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies

Based on the results of our own monitoring, the monitoring group of the BlackSeaNews and the Black Sea Institute of Strategic Studies, presents below The 2025 Database of Russian Missile and Drone Attacks on the Ports of Greater Odesa.

* * *

ТОТ – temporarily occupied territories
UAV — unmanned aerial vehicle
OTRK - operational tactical missile system
BM — ballistic missile
CM — cruise missile
ARM - anti-radiation missile
SLCM — sea-launched cruise missile
AShM — anti-ship missile

Data taken from the official Air Force Command of the Armed Forces
www.facebook.com/kpszsu and official channels of the regional administration.

In January-July 2025, the Russian Army carried out at least 86 attacks* on the ports of the Greater Odesa — Port of Odesa, Pivdennyi Port, Port of Chornomorsk and other ports of the Odesa region — as well as on energy and industrial infrastructure of the Odesa Oblast. A variety of missiles and UAVs launched from the TOT Crimea and Southern Ukraine, as well as from the RF, have been used in the strikes, averaging 1 attack every three days. Those included no less than:

• 27 missile attacks of various types (1 in July, 2 (+2) in June, 5 in May, 3 in April, 3 in March, 6 in February, and 5 in January)

• 60 attacks by strike and decoy UAVs of the Shahed-136/131, Geran/Gerbera and other types (7 in July, 10 in June (+5), 7 in May, 8 in April, 11 in March, 9 in February, and 3 in January).

• 1 attack by small USVs (1 in June).

*the number of attacks by different weapon types may exceed the total number of attacks, since the enemy could use both UAVs and missiles in one attack.

Together there have been 9 attacks in July, 20 in June, 11 in May, 11 in April, 14 in March, 14 in February and 7 in January.

For strikes on the ports, Russia used no less than:

• 29 CM and BM Iskander missiles — 2 in July, 2 in June, 9 in May, 5 in April, 2 in March, 5 in February and 4 in January
• 5 Kh-59/Kh-69 ALCMs — 1 in February and 4 in January
• 11 Kh-31P ARMs — 0 in July, 2 in June,0 in May, 3 in April,0 in March, 4 in February and 2 in January
• 1 Kalibr SLCM — in March only
• 4 Oniks AShMs – 1 in June and 3 in April
• 3 Kh-22 AShMs - in June only
• 3 Banderol CM – in May only
• while the exact number of strike UAVs involved is not accurately recorded, it is estimated to range from 10 to 20 during one attack, i.e., at least 150-200 since the beginning of the year. In July the number of Shaheds per attack increased — on July 24, over 30 strike UAVs were recorded during the attack on Odesa. Thus, since July, there are at least 150 drones used monthly, i.e. 550–600 UAVs over January–July.

Main launch sites for the port infrastructure strikes:

• Missile: ballistic – TOT Crimea, ASMs — Black Sea airspace
• UAV: Russian border regions with Ukraine, including with the involvement of the TOT Crimea.

Over January-July 2025 there have been:

• 17 naval mines destroyed in Odesa Oblast by controlled detonation - 2 in July, 1 in June, 1 in May, 3 in April, 7 in March, 1 in February, and 2 in January
• 5 attacks on civilian vessels, causing civilian fatalities and damage to 6 ships and the port infrastructure
• 5 of the vessels were attacked by Iskander BMs at the Odesa Commercial Sea Port (three in March, one in May, and one in July), while one — blown up by a mine on the Danube River:

March
01.03.25 – bulker SUPER SARKAS (flag of Sierra Leone) and container ship MSC LEVANTE F (flag of Panama);
11.03.25 – bulker MJ Pinar (flag of Barbados, 4 crew members killed).
May
23.05.25 – an Iskander-M BM damaged a container ship at the Odesa Commercial Sea Port (the information published by the media was not confirmed, the ship's name was not reported).
July
03.07.25 – an Iskander-M BM damaged a civilian vessel under the flag of São Tomé and Príncipe (the name could not be determined) at the Odesa Commercial Sea Port. Two crew members were killed.
23.07.25 – an explosion (likely a mine) at the Bystre mouth of the Danube River damaged the civilian dredger Inhulskyi of the SE Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, killing three crew members.  

* * * 

The 2025 Database of Russian Missile and
Drone Attacks on the Ports of Greater Odesa

January 2025

06.01.2024
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 2 Kh-59 CM/TAC - both downed from TAC over the Black Sea
Target: port infrastructure
Impact: none reported.

14.01.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk direction, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 2 Kh-31P ARM
Target: the Chornomorsk Sea Port infrastructure
Impact: monitors detected missile approach around 15:30. No impact reported.

22.01.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-131/136 UAV from TOT AR Crimea (Cape Chauda); Millerovo, Bryansk, Kursk, Orel and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia);
Target: energy and port infrastructure
Impact: no impact reported in Odesa region.

24.01.2025
Region attacked: Pivdenne, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 2 Kh-59/69 ALCM/Su-57 from the Black Sea waters — both destroyed
Target: Pivdennyi Port
Impact: the attack occurred in the evening. One of the Kh-59 missiles was downed by UAF Navy boats. No impact reported.

28.01.2025
Region attacked: Pivdenne, Odesa district, and Odesa
Weapon/Carrier:
1 Iskander-K CM from the Black Sea waters —destroyed
strike UAVs and decoy drones of the Shahed-136/131 and Geran/Gerbera types. In the South, 11 enemy strike Shahed and other type UAVs were downed, 7 of which — in the Odesa region.
Target: Odesa Sea Port and Pivdennyi Port
Impact: Odesa — morning missile and UAVs attack:

• debris from downed drones damaged glazing in four residential buildings and five country houses
• Kyiv and Prymorskyi districts reported over 900 windows damaged in 10 buildings; 15 apartments were damaged
• in a residential building in one of the residential complexes,
• 10 cars caught fire in one of the residential courtyards of Odesa
• a warehouse containing grain was damaged
• reports indicated missiles on approach toward Pivdenne.

31.01.2025
Night-morning:
Region attacked: Chornomosk and likely Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-type drones and decoy drones launched from Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF) and Cape Chauda (Crimea)
Target: Chornomorsk Sea Port
Impact: Odesa Oblast — city hospital damaged, private homes affected, grain storage facilities hit. Electricity supply disrupted in parts of Chornomorsk. Four people wounded. Damage to oil terminal reported.
Evening:
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: 3 Iskander-M ballistic missiles launched from TOT Crimea
Target: Odesa Sea Port.
Impact: Odesa — at around 20.00 the city’s historical center attacked, causing multiple damage and destruction in the UNESCO-protected zone, including to the: Philharmonic (New Stock Exchange); Vucini House; Museum of Western and Eastern Art; Branch of the Literary Museum (Sikar House); and Bristol and Decameron hotels; as well as three cars; 6 apartment buildings; 2 office premises; 1 mooring stand on the territory of Odesa Seaport; 4 private houses; high-voltage power line; building of the State Archives of the Odesa Oblast. Seven people wounded. Norwegian diplomats were in the Bristol hotel at the time of the attack.

February 2025

01.02.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: 2 anti-radar missiles Kh-31P
Target/Impact: an attack around 1 a.m.; no further information available.

05.02.2025
Region attacked: Pivdenne, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 ALCM Kh-59/Su-30/34 aircraft
Target: port infrastructure of the Pivdennyi Port
Impact: Pivdenne — at around 18:15 civilian infrastructure attacked, damaging 11-story unfinished building, residential buildings, a minimarket and cafe; killing one person and injuring another.

13.02.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Target: port infrastructure of the Odesa Sea Port and Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: the Odesa district was attacked by UAVs on the night of February 13; details on the impact not reported; there was also a warning about the activity of enemy UAVs and the probability of air defense operations in Odesa Oblast at 15:15. The monitoring channels reported that 2 USVs flew into the territory of the Republic of Moldova.

13.02.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: 1 BM Iskander-M/OTRK Iskander from TOT Crimea
Target: the Odesa Sea Port infrastructure
Impact: Оdesa – a powerful explosion at around 18.10 after a warning of a prospective ballistic attack from Crimea. A port infrastructure object hit.

14.02.2025
Region attacked: Pivdenne, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Target: Pivdennyi Sea Port infrastructure
Impact: Pivdenne — on the night of February 13-morning of February 14, a massive attack by strike drones on the town of Pivdenne and nearby settlements (northern outskirts of Odesa) damaged port infrastructure, an out-of-service recreation center, and a car, causing fires.

16.02.2025
Region attacked: Chornomosk and Pivdenne, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 BM Iskander-M/OTRK Iskander from TOT Crimea
Target: port infrastructure, likely Port of Chornomosk
Impact: Odesa Oblast — explosions early in the morning following a missile threat alert. According to the monitors, a ballistic missile detected around 4.30 a.m. with at lest one missile headed towards Zatoka/Tatarbunary in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district. No further information available. Around 22:00 on the same day, monitors reported two Kh-31P ARM in the Odesa/Chornomorsk direction. Also, at 22:00 reports of explosions near Pivdenne with no missiles detected.

17.02.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Chornomosk, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Target: port infrastructure, likely Odesa Sea Port and the Port of Chornomosk
Impact: on the night of February 17, an attack by strike UAVs on the Odesa and Chornomorsk directions reported. In Odesa Oblast, UDF air defense units downed 11 Shahed and other type UAVs. No impact reported.

18.02.2025
Region attacked: Kyiv and Odesa district, Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF) Target: еnergy and port infrastructure, including of the Odesa Sea Port.
Impact: as a result of the attack, the energy infrastructure significantly damaged.
A massive attack by strike UAVs on Odesa and the district began In the evening, lasting for several hours:

• a series of explosions occurred in the Tairov area of Odesa - there the power went out, and trolleybuses stopped
• local emergency power outages have been introduced in parts of Odesa oblast
• critical infrastructure is operating with generators
• in the Kyiv district of Odesa, heat supply to some consumers was suspended
• 14 schools, 13 kindergartens and a large residential area - more than 500 houses - were left without power and heating
• at least 160,000 residents of Odesa are without heat and electricity.
• there were also problems with water supply
• at least 20 buildings, glazing in high-rise buildings, cars, a children's polyclinic and a kindergarten, a business center, and commercial facilities sustained significant damage
• 4 people were injured, including a 10-year-old girl
• reports indicated a strong fire in the city - a likely impact
• local emergency blackouts in the city of Chornomorsk, Odesa and the settlements of Tairova, Savran, Burlacha Balka, Limanka, Mizikevicha, and Sukhyi Liman
• as of the morning of February 19, the Ministry of Development reported two district boiler houses in Odesa de-energized, and part of the Kyiv district — 489 residential buildings, 14 schools, 13 kindergartens and 9 medical facilities, in total, almost 80,000 people — left without heat.

19.02.2025
Region attacked: Peresyp district, Odesa, and Odesa Oblast.
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Target: port infrastructure, likely Odesa Sea Port
Impact: Odesa — at around 22:00 the city was attacked by UAVs for the second time in a day, with the city center and the port being the center of the attack, resulting in damaged energy and industrial infrastructure, specifically:

• fires broke out on the roof of a catering establishment and a warehouse building of a private enterprise, an administrative building, a car wash, a roadway and glazing of a private house were damaged
• about five thousand residents of one of the districts of Odesa were left without electricity due to the attack
• as a result of two consecutive strikes on Odesa Oblast, 89,500 subscribers were without electricity at one point.

21.02.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Zatoka, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 2 BM Iskander-M/OTRK Iskander from TOT Crimea
Target: port infrastructure, likely Odesa Sea Port
Impact: around 04:30 a missile attack threat was reported — two high-speed targets moving towards Odesa and Zatoka. No information on the damage reported.

22.02.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast,
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF); and Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)
Target: energy and port infrastructure of the Port of Chornomosk
Impact: Odesa district: 

• as a result of the 23:00 attack, a private house caught fire in the village of Velykodolynske (located 8-10 km from the Port of Chornomosk)
• electrical substations hit — the Akkarzha traction electrical substation (110/35/27,5 kW) in Velykodolynske is part of the railway infrastructure used for the traction of electric locomotives
• around 22:30 due to the ballistic missile threat from Crimea, an air alert was announced, with no further information available.

23.02.2025
Night/morning:
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF); and Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)
Target: port infrastructure
Impact: Odesa Oblast — the attack on the night of February 23 with reports of downed strike UAVs and damage in the area.
Also, on the same day at 04:50 a.m., a missile threat for Odesa Oblast reported, no further information available
Evening:
Region attacked: Odesa and Chornomosk, Odesa region
Weapon/Carrier:
at least 2 BM or ALCM
strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, Shatalovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF); and Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)
Targets: port infrastructure, likely Odesa Sea Port and the Port of Chornomosk
Impact: Odesa Oblast — at around 19.00, reports of a missile threat and high-speed targets moving from the Black Sea towards Odesa and Chornomorsk. No impact reported. At 21:40, a group of UAVs was reported moving along the same route. Damage reported with no details available.

28.02.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Chornomosk, Odesa region
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136/131 type UAVs launched from the Black Sea waters.
Target: port infrastructure, likely Odesa Sea Port
Impact: Odesa, Odesa district — after 21.00, an hour-long UAV attack from the Black Sea.
The air strike alert announced at 21.04, while the monitoring channels reported that a group of attack drones was approaching Odesa from the sea. Shortly after he group split and approached simultaneously from three directions — from the north (the village of Kotovske), the south (Tairova district) and the city center.
Odesa district was attacked by 3 UAVs, with at least 3 more heading from the Black Sea area in the direction of Odesa/Chornomorsk.
Around 23.00, Odesa district was attacked resulting in a one-story private house, a private enterprise, trucks and cars catching fire as a result of falling debris. One person was killed and another injured. The attack also damaged the premises of the Chornomorets football team’s training base, with and explosion on the Sauvignon lower training field. The blast wave hit the administrative building with the team inside, blowing out the windows and damaging the swimming pool.

March 2025

01.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 BM Iskander-M launched from TOT Crimea
Target: Port of Odesa and a civilian vessel
Impact: at 5:55 p.m., a BM attack damaged port infrastructure, injuring two civilian workers. The bulk carrier SUPER SARKAS (flagged Sierra Leone), transporting more than 21,000 tons of corn and soybeans for export, and the container ship MSC LEVANTE F (flagged Panama), owned by the Swiss MSC company, were both damaged. MSC LEVANTE F was hit on its first day in port.

03.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: several dozen Shahed-136 strike UAVs
Target: Port of Odesa, energy infrastructure
Impact: between 9:20 and 9:40 p.m., powerful explosions and gunfire were heard in the city. Fires broke out and energy infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, causing power outages in parts of the city, and shutting down three district boiler houses. Residential buildings, a business center, and 91 private houses and apartments in a high-rise building were also damaged. Four locals were injured. 

04.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Chornomosk, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: about 20 Shahed-136/131 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy infrastructure, Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: from 9 to 11 p.m., the Russian Armed Forces attacked Odesa with, likely, Shahed-136 UAVs, targeting energy, port, and civilian infrastructure. Critical infrastructure in Odesa was damaged, and part of the city was left without electricity, water and heat. A 73-year-old resident of the Limanka village was killed, while another got moderately severe injuries. About 30 private houses in the suburbs of Odesa, outbuildings, a business center, a post office, a medical laboratory, commercial facilities, and cars were damaged and destroyed.

05.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa district, Odesa and Pivdenne
Weapon/Carrier: about 15 Shahed-136/131 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: Port of Odesa and Pivdennyi Port
Impact: Pivdenne - Russian Armed Forces attacked in the evening. Energy and civilian infrastructure were hit. One-family and multi-storey buildings, service stations and at least 15 cars were damaged. More than ten thousand locals were left without electricity; two people injured.

06.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Podilsk district
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs
Targets: Port of Odesa
Impact: Russian Armed Forces attacked on 11:40 p.m. The energy infrastructure was damaged. At least 10 private homes, outbuildings, a gas pipeline and cars were damaged and destroyed in the suburbs of Odesa. More than two and a half thousand residents were left without electricity. 

07.03.2025, morning
Region attacked: Podilsk district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 CM, likely Kalibr
Targets: likely, critical infrastructure
Impact: at around 4:30 a.m., a CM, likely a Kalibr, damaged 16 private houses in the Podilsk district. Debris from the missile set a one-story house on fire and damaged four others. Podilsk district borders Moldova —specifically, the PMR region — and is home to two major industrial enterprises: Pivdentekhgaz OJSC, that produces liquefied gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, argon and gas mixtures, and Pivdenremvestat LLC, that repairs machinery and manufactures parts). It is likely the missile was not aimed at any target in northern Odesa Oblast but was downed while flying from the Black Sea coast toward northern or western regions. On the same day, 8 Kalibr CMs were downed over various regions.

07.03.2025, evening
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs — 21 downed
Targets: port and energy infrastructure, likely Port of Odesa
Impact: explosions occurred around 9:35 p.m. as drones approached Odesa and Chornomorsk. Hits and falling wreckage damaged or destroyed a hangar with agricultural machinery, a four-story industrial building, a gas station, a car shop, a service station, a car dealership whose loss is estimated at over $500,000, and at least eight cars. Fires broke out at several sites, including at an open area with stacked solar panels. Nearly 1,500 residents lost electricity.

10.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomosk infrastructure
Impact: starting at 10 p.m., attack drones from the Black Sea targeted Odesa and the surrounding region. Hits and falling debris damaged or destroyed several private enterprise warehouses, fuel tanks, a business center, a garage, and an outbuilding on a private property. Windows in nearby homes were shattered. More than 100 firefighters and two Ukrzaliznytsia fire trains responded to the fires. The attack released significant amounts of pollutants and combustion products into the air.

11.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 BM Iskander-M launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: Port of Odesa infrastructure and a foreign civilian vessel
Impact: at 8:17 p.m., a BM stuck the corner of the quay wall between berths 34 and 35, damaging berth 35, the grain gallery of the Brooklyn-Kyiv terminal, and four grain silos. The strike caused a fire, releasing a large amount of pollutants and production byproducts into the air. The MJ Pinar, a Barbados-flagged Greek bulk carrier, was damaged. Four crew members — three Syrians and one Ukrainian — were killed, while another sailor and a pilot company employee injured. At the time of the strike, the ship was loading wheat for export to Algeria.

13-14.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs
Targets: likely of the Port of Odesa infrastructure
Impact: on the night of March 13/morning of March 14, Shahed-136 drones struck Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi districts. Civilian infrastructure was damaged, including garages and the administrative building of an inactive medical facility.

15.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: port and energy infrastructure, Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: attack lasted from the evening of March 14 through the night of March 15
Chornomorsk - damage to the energy infrastructure caused a total blackout; a truck driver was injured.
Odesa - an energy facility, private businesses, residential buildings, service stations, a car shop, cars and trucks were damaged. A private apartment building was partially destroyed, and shrapnel from a damaged car injured a 61-year-old woman, who was subsequently hospitalized.

19.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs — 2 downed
Targets: Port of Odesa
Impact: damage in the city and oblast. No further details available.

20.03.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: port, critical, energy and civilian infrastructure, including the Port of Odesa
Impact: from 10:00 to 11:30 p.m., the Russian Armed Forces targeted civilian infrastructure:

• major fires broke out in three locations
• localized emergency power outages affected Prymorsky, Peresypsky and Kyivsky districts of the city
• two shopping centers, several shops, a service station, a car dealership, a private warehouse, a supermarket and cars were damaged and destroyed
• three people, including children, were injured
• besides Odesa, destruction was also reported in the Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi districts of the Odesa Oblast
• Tairovo cemetery was hit, and dozens of graves destroyed
• several large Romstal Ukraine enterprises were affected: a 1,000 m² car dealership with all of its vehicles burned downed, and a Romstal store branch collapsed due to the drone hit, destroying all inventory.

NEW DRONE TACTICS: That was one of the largest attacks on Odesa. Military experts noted that drones were launched from over 2 km high, making them hard to intercept, then dived sharply to hit targets with greater accuracy. The aim appeared to be widespread destruction and civilian intimidation.

28.03.2025
Region attacked: Mizhlymanske village, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: strike and decoy Shahed-136 UAVs
Targets: critical infrastructure, likely Port of Odesa
Impact: Mizhlymanske - several private houses, outbuildings, warehouses, a shop, garages, and cars were damaged or destroyed. The village, located between the Port of Odesa and the Pivdennyi Port, suffered fires in garages and outbuildings.

April 2025

02.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136/131-type strike and decoy UAVs - -at least 10 downed over Odesa
Target: civilian infrastructure and likely, Port of Odesa
Impact: the attack with strike drones from the sea began the previous evening and lasted until at least 1 a.m. Residential and municipal infrastructure was damaged in the Odessa district’s villages of Khlibodarske and Radisne, located near a transport interchange and in close proximity to the Port of Odesa. In Khlibodarsk, windows were broken in residential buildings, a lyceum, and the boiler room of the local housing and utilities management department (VUZHKG), while several private houses were damaged in Radisne.

12.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136/131-type strike and decoy UAVs
Target: Port of Odesa infrastructure
Impact: at around 1 a.m., the Air Force reported the movement of groups of strike UAVs from the Black Sea towards Odesa and the Odesa Oblast. There were reports of the Odesa region being affected by the attacks, with no further information.

13.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Chornomosk, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136/131-type strike and decoy UAVs — at least 7 downed
Targets: Port of Odesa and Pivdennyi Port’s infrastructure
Impact: the attack lasted from 9:50 to 10:50 p.m. There were reports of a drone group moving towards the villages of Kotovske, Fontanka, Pivdenne, and Rybakivka. Later, the port area, the center of Odesa, and the Peresyp district, including Luzanivka, were also under threat.
Residential buildings, private businesses, medical facilities, shops, service stations, and at least 37 vehicles — both cars and trucks — got damaged. In one of Odessa's medical facilities, the attack damaged the ceiling and windows and destroyed an operating room.
Note: The attack on April 13 differed from the rest due the high altitude the drones moved at. Some of them were flying at about 2,500 meters, while others at and above 200 meters, which helped them avoid being spotted by mobile fire teams armed with guns. A distinctive feature of the attack was that this time the Shahed-136 drones entered Odesa from the north, i.e. from mainland Ukraine, using an altitude that was out of reach for small arms. Low altitudes were used when approaching from the sea.

16.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136/131-type strike and decoy UAVs — at least 16 downed
Targets: the city and Port of Odesa infrastructure
Impact: the attack began in the evening of April 15 and lasted until 2:15 a.m. The enemy attacked Odesa and Odesa region in waves from different directions. Private homes, warehouses of civilian enterprises, a pharmacy, a church, and cars were damaged; three civilians wounded.

18.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: at least 8 different missiles: 3 Iskander-M BMs, 2 Oniks AShM, and 3 Kh-31P ARMs, all launched from TOT Crimea.
Targets: civilian infrastructure
Impact: at around 10 p.m., Russian armed forces carried out a combined missile strike on the Odesa region using surface- and air-launched missiles. Farm warehouses, agricultural equipment, and buildings were damaged and destroyed. Electricity and cellphone service were cut off in the village of Tuzly.

19.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: at least 5 Shahed-136/131-type strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: civilian and port infrastructure, including that of the Ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk
Impact: an air raid alert was declared at 0:40 a.m., and less than an hour later, residents of Odesa and the city center heard gunfire and explosions. Drones attacked from the Black Sea, destroying farms in the Odessa Oblast.

21.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: likely, Iskander BM
Targets: port and civilian infrastructure
Impact: at around 3:30 p.m., an air raid siren sounded in Odesa and the Odesa Oblast. Monitoring Telegram channels reported the launch of an object resembling a ballistic missile. Between 3:30 p.m. and 3:40 p.m., it was reported that near the coast the missile had disappeared from radars. An explosion was heard from some parts of the city.

21.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: according to the monitoring channels, at least 30 Shahed-136-type strike and decoy UAVs — 25 downed
Targets: civilian and Ports of Odesa and Chornomosk infrastructure
Impact: from 9:55 p.m. to 10:55 p.m., Russian Armed Forces launched a large-scale drone attack on Odesa, probably the most massive one since the beginning of invasion. Civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, educational institutions, and cars were damaged and destroyed. More than 90 windows in three schools were broken. The Storm sports complex in the Kyiv district of the city was completely destroyed. Three local residents were injured in the attack.
Note: the Russians used a new tactic: first, they launched a single drone over Odesa, which simply circled over the city, exhausting the air defense, while the rest, grouped over the sea, waited until it completed its job.

22.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and suburbs
Weapon/Carrier: at least 20 Shahed-136/131-type strike and decoy UAVs — 16 downed and 2 locationally lost
Targets: Ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk and civilian infrastructure
Impact: from 10:15 p.m. to 11:20 p.m., Russian armed forces launched a large-scale drone attack on Odesa and its suburbs. Civilian infrastructure was damaged and destroyed, including the premises of a private enterprise, private homes, and cars. Powerful fires broke out in the suburbs. Two people were injured.

27.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136-type strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: Ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi, and civilian infrastructure
Impact: a group of drones attacked coastal areas of the Odesa Oblast from the Black Sea. In Odesa district, a three-story residential building and cars were damaged. A 35-year-old local woman was injured and hospitalized.

28.04.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: likely, an Iskander-M BM launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: port infrastructure
Impact: an air raid alert was declared from 6:57 p.m. to 7:28 p.m. Almost immediately, a very powerful explosion was heard from Odesa to the Ovidiopol and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi districts, probably as a result of the explosion or downing of an Iskander-M missile.

May 2025

01.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier:
21 Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Kursk, Millerovo, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF), and Chauda (TOT Crimea) — 16 downed;
5 Iskander-M BMs launched from TOT Crimea (no interceptions reported)
Targets: civilian, port-adjacent, and railway infrastructure. Likely, Port of Odesa.
Impact: UAVs attacked Odesa from the Black Sea side. Explosions began at approximately 23:55 on April 30 and continued for at least 30 minutes, with at least 15 explosions heard in the city. After the drone attack, at about 05:30, a ballistic missile threat was announced, with reports of high-speed targets from the Black Sea towards Odesa region. Railway infrastructure leading to Odesa was damaged — both tracks and power systems. All passenger trains are running on schedule, while freight trains are temporarily rerouted to ensure uninterrupted cargo transport to the ports.

A 16-storey apartment building, several other apartment and private residential buildings, an educational institution, a supermarket, and civilian vehicles were damaged. Two Ukrzaliznytsia employees killed, 15 injured. More than 50 apartments in the high-rise and about 10 private houses were damaged. A warehouse in the Khadzhibey district caught fire (area — 6,000 m²), about 500 tons of CO₂ released into the air, damages exceeded UAH 1.4 million.

03.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 Iskander-M BM launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, Russian occupation forces attacked Odesa region with a BM, likely, an Iskander-M. No further details on impact reported.

05.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa Oblast, Chornomorsk
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Kursk, Orel, Millerovo (RF), and Prymorsk (TOT Zaporizhzhia Oblast) — over 20 UAVs shot down over the region, including 9 by the Ukrainian Navy and 2 by the State Border Guard Service
Targets: civilian infrastructure. Likely, Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: air raid alert in Odesa declared at 21:37 and lasted nearly an hour. Several groups of strike UAVs from the Black Sea attacked Odesa and Chornomorsk. Explosions heard in some districts and suburbs of Odesa. Private homes, outbuildings, an educational institution, warehouse facilities of a private company, and vehicles were damaged. In Odesa Region, a 29-year-old local man was killed by fatal burns due to power line damage.

13.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa Oblast, Chornomorsk
Weapon/Carrier: 1 Iskander-M BM launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: port-adjacent infrastructure. Likely, Port of Odesa, Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: during an air raid alert announced in Odesa Oblast at 19:23, an explosion was heard. According to Air Command South, a high-speed target moved from the Black Sea towards Chornomorsk, preceding the ballistic missile strike. No casualties reported. No further details.

16.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Regions, Chornomorsk
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Bryansk, Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Targets: civilian and port-adjacent infrastructure. Likely, Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: in various areas of Odesa region, private homes, outbuildings, and vehicles were damaged. Two men and a woman suffered shrapnel wounds, blast injuries, fractures, and burns (the woman died the next day from her injuries). A UAV destroyed the house of the Odesa Zoo director, Ihor Bilyakov.

23.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 7 Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Millerovo, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF) — 5 shot down by air defense, 2 lost
Targets: civilian infrastructure
Impact: air raid alert in Odesa at 08:20. Drones flew both from the center of the Oblast towards Odesa and from southern Mykolaiv Oblast towards Odesa Oblast. Alert ended at 09:41. Due to the morning attack, the first shift in Odesa schools switched to remote learning. Two people, a 46-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman, were injured and hospitalized.

23.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: 2 Iskander-M BMs
Targets: port infrastructure. Port of Odesa
Impact: around 14:15, Russian forces launched missile strikes on Odesa port infrastructure, reportedly with two Iskander-M BMs. The engine room of the port, windows and doors in administrative buildings, vehicles, and equipment were damaged. Unofficially, a container ship (unconfirmed) and a container warehouse were damaged. Three people killed, including a 40-year-old employee of a private cargo handling company; six others hospitalized with varying injuries.

24.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Bryansk, Millerovo, Kursk, Orel, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF), TOT Crimea
Targets: port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: hits on port-adjacent infrastructure reported.

25.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Bryansk, Millerovo, Kursk, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Targets: civilian and port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: civilian infrastructure in Odesa damaged and destroyed. A large fire broke out in a parking lot among high-rise buildings, destroying at least 20 cars. The blast wave shattered 130 windows and damaged four apartment buildings.

26.05.2025
Attacked region: Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Regions, Chornomorsk
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 and similar strike UAVs launched from Bryansk, Millerovo, Kursk, Orel, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF), Chauda (TOT Crimea) — 25 shot down
Targets: port infrastructure. Likely, Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: from 22:40 to 23:40, Russian forces carried out another massive UAV attack on Odesa Oblast. Initially, drones moved towards Odesa, with explosions heard in the city. After 23:00, UAVs flew towards Chornomorsk, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, and Zatoka.
A residential building (100 m²) was destroyed and caught fire. Roofs, outbuildings, two garages, cars, a fence, and a gas pipeline were damaged. At another address, two garages burned, a house was damaged, and a car burned. A 14-year-old resident of Velykodolynske was injured in the night attack.

29.05.2025
Attacked region: Pivdenne, Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast,
Weapon/Carrier: 3 Banderoľ CMs
Targets: Chornomorsk Sea Trade Port and Pivdennyi Sea Trade Port
Impact: none reported
Banderoľ is a fragmentation-high explosive munition, intermediate between a UAV and a cruise missile. Launched from large UAVs, its explosive mass is 138–150 kg. The main threat is its range: Russian sources claim 700 km, Ukrainian forces recorded 310–320 km from the launch site. It also has a high speed — 480 to 680 km/h.

June 2025

02.06.2025 (TBC)
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast, Pivdenne
Weapon/Carrier: an experimental strike USV Murena-300
Targets: likely Pivdennyi Port
Impact: Russia likely employed an experimental (Murena-300 USV, according to a response from HUR MO to an official inquiry from Suspilne. The leadership of the Main Intelligence Directorate reported that the attack was unsuccessful — the unmanned vessels detonated while still in Russia’s territorial waters. According to intelligence data, the Murena-300 USV has the following technical specifications:
· Dimensions (length/width), m: 5.5 / 1.4
· Displacement, t: up to 1,000
· Hull material: composite
· Cruising speed, km/h: 45
· Maximum range, km: 500
· Communication and navigation channels: satellite communication channel, inertial navigation system
· Payload mass, kg: up to 500
· Payload: 40x optical zoom camera, infrared camera, thermal imager.

03.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Carrier: several dozen Shahed-136 strike UAVs launched from Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF, Cape Chauda – TOT Crimea.
Targets: logistical infrastructure, likely the Port of Odesa
Impact: as a result of the night attack in Odesa, civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, warehouses of a private enterprise, and cars of city residents were damaged and destroyed. Five local residents obtained injures of varying degrees.

04.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa district, Odesa and Pivdenne
Weapon/Carrier: more than 20 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs – 24 downed, launched from Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF.
Targets: likely, the Port of Odesa and Pivdennyi Port
Impact: a massive drone attack targeted Odesa — the enemy deployed more than 20 UAVs (about 14 attacked Odesa itself, while another six headed toward the town of Pivdenne). Civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, garages, and storage facilities of private enterprises sustained damage and destruction.

07.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Bryansk, Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF, and Cape Chauda - TOT Crimea.
Targets: likely, the Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: as a result of the night attack, the church building and other infrastructure in the village of Ovidopol were damaged.  

08.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast, Odesa district, Pivdenne/Chornomorsk
Weapon/Carrier: Oniks AShM
Targets: port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: at around 1:3 a.m. Odesa was hit by an AShM. The military had warned that the missile was heading towards Odessa, then towards Pivdenne/Chornomorsk. The explosion occurred within the Odessa district. No further details available.

09.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast, likely the Black Sea waters or Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyi district
Weapon/Carrier: 3 Kh-22 СMs and 1 Kh-31P ARM, launched from a Tupolev Tu-22M
Targets: port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: at around 2:00 a.m. missiles were launched from the Black Sea towards the Odesa Oblast waters, failing to reach the shore — according to the monitoring channels, they hit gas platforms at sea. An hour later, explosions from Kh-31P ARM strike were heard in the Odessa district.

10.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: at least 10 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Kursk, Shatalovo, Orel, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF
Targets: likely the Port of Odesa
Impact: residential buildings, a maternity hospital, an emergency medical station, a private medical clinic, a sports complex, a zoo, a railway station building, and private civilian vehicles sustained damage in Odesa. The Odessa Film Studio pavilions, warehouses, and vehicles also suffered damaged in the night UAV attack. Five women and three men sustained injuries, while another woman experienced an acute stress reaction.

17.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Kursk, Shatalovo, Orel, Bryansk, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF
Targets: likely, the Port of Odesa
Impact: from 4:30 to 5:00 a.m., the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive UAV attack on Odesa. Significant destruction was recorded in the historic part of the city. Damage to civilian infrastructure included to several multi-story residential buildings, two of which were partially destroyed, an inclusive resource center for children, a kindergarten, premises of a municipal enterprise, garages, and private vehicles.

The drone attack ruined over 100 of its windows and doors of the city infectious disease hospital. The blast wave damaged windows, walls, icons, and the roof of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The building of the Art and Graphic Faculty of the Ushynsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University was also affected.
Two local women were killed, while another 14 people injured or suffered acute stress reactions.

20.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: at least 10 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Millerovo, Kursk, Orel, Bryansk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF
Targets: rail infrastructure, and likely, the Port of Odesa
Impact: from 00:51 to 01:15 the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive UAV attack on Odesa. Among the damaged structures were: a 23-story and other residential buildings, one of which was completely destroyed; multiple outbuildings, Odessa Polytechnic University, shops, and private cars; and the infrastructure of the Odessa railway station, including its overhead line and railway sleeper grid. In total, more than 50 structures were damaged and more than 300 windows broken. One person was killed in the attack, while14 others injured, including three rescue workers. According to the South-Western District State Environmental Inspection, the damage to the environment amounted to over UAH 60 million.

21.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Kursk, Shatalovo, Orel, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF
Targets: likely, the Port of Odesa
Impact: shortly after 1 a.m., explosions were reported as the city came under attack by enemy drones. According to social media, there had been several hits and subsequent fires in Odesa. No further details available.

23.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa district, Odesa and Pivdenne
Weapon/Carrier: around 30 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Kursk, Shatalovo, Orel, Bryansk, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF
Targets: likely, the Port of Odesa
Impact: late in the evening Odesa and Odesa Oblast were attacked by strike UAVs from the Black Sea. Explosions were heard in the city and suburbs. After midnight, monitoring channels reported explosions in the Odessa and Pivdenne districts. No further details available.

28.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: more than 20 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from and Primorsko-Akhtarsk –RF, and Cape Chauda—TOT Crimea.
Targets: logistical and port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: a 21-story flat block, private outbuildings, an administrative structure, a private company warehouse, a defunct gas station, and cars sustained damage.
Two local residents were killed, and 17 others injured and suffered acute stress reactions, including three boys aged 3, 7, and 14. Information about other possible victims TBC.

30.06.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast, Odesa and Chornomorsk
Weapon/Carrier: more than 10 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs launched from Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk – RF, and Hvardiiske – TOT Crimea
Targets: logistical and port-adjacent infrastructure, the Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: after 4 a.m., strike UAVs were launched at the Odesa Oblast. Explosions were heard in the vicinity of Chornomorsk. A Russian Shahed drone hit car repair shops of the Infoksvodokanal branch office and the company's special equipment storage facility, damaging several dozen vehicles. Most of those were repair crew vehicles, used to reach accident sites and transport the necessary equipment. An excavator, tank trucks, and sludge pumps also sustained damage. The auto electricians and motorists repair shop premises were completely destroyed along with the equipment.

June attacks on other areas of Odesa Oblast

In June, the Russian Armed Forces significantly increased the number of drone and missile attacks on other regions of Odesa, in particular, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Izmail districts to at least seven, including two missile attacks:

01.06.2025. As a result of a Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAV attack, a recreation center in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district was damaged, while a fire broke out in private homes of the Lyman urban hromada.

05.06.2025. At night, more than 25 Shahed-136 strike UAVs targeted civilian infrastructure in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district. In particular, a family medicine clinic building was destroyed, while a lyceum and a children's and youth creativity center damaged.

06.06.2025. At night, the enemy attacked the Odesa Oblast with an X-31P ARM from the Black Sea. The explosion occurred within the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district. Thanks to active countermeasures, the missile did not reach its target.

11.06.2025. As a result of an attack by the Shahed-136 strike UAVs, civilian infrastructure — summer houses, farm buildings, civilian vessels, warehouses, and cars — in the Izmail and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi districts was damaged. The drones fired on Vylkove urban hromada. Despite the active work of the air defense forces, that had shot down some of the enemy drones, several houses were hit, five of which caught fire. A reed harvesting enterprise and several apartment buildings were also damaged.
22.06.2025. At night, the Shahed-136 UAVs attacked the-Dnistrovskyi district. The buildings of the emergency medical station, a residential house, garages, and vehicles were damaged. 

23.06.2025. At around 2:35 p.m., the Russian Armed Forces launched BMs —presumably, two Iskander-M — at the the Odesa region city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. The strike targeted Lyceum No. 1. Three lyceum employees were killed, and 12 people injured. 

25.06.2025. At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a Shahed-136 UAV attack on the Izmail district’s civilian infrastructure. A private enterprise warehouse, agricultural equipment, and machinery were damaged.

July 2025

02.07.2025.
Region attacked: Vylkove community, Izmail region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: likely, the Ust-Danube Commercial Seaport
Impact: port-adjacent and tourism infrastructure damaged.

03.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: critical infrastructure — likely, the Port of Odesa
Impact: a residential building seriously damaged, 6 apartments on the seventh and eighth floors completely destroyed;5 people injured, including a 7-year-old girl and 8 – year-old boy. Also, the building of the Consulate General of China sustained minor damage.

03.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier:
Target: Port of Odesa
Impact: during the day, RF attacked Odesa twice with BMs. Around 12:50, Russian forces struck port-adjacent infrastructure in Odesa with a missile hitting the area of one of the port’s berths. Port-adjacent infrastructure, including the cranes, equipment and warehouses, and a civilian vessel under the flag of São Tomé and Príncipe damaged. Two people were killed and six more wounded, including Syrian crew members of the foreign civil vessel in the port.
In the evening, there was another missile attack — an explosion was heard in Odesa around 17:25.

07.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: port-adjacent, logistical and civil infrastructure
Impact: on the night of July 7, Russian forces attacked Odesa UAVs, damaging the civil infrastructure, including garages, a service station and vehicles. Ten garages, a gas station and construction cabins damaged. Passenger cars, trucks, and a bus destroyed by fire. One man killed.

11.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: civil infrastructure
Impact: civil infrastructure, residential and administrative buildings, a stable, and vehicles damaged. Eight people injured.

19.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: at least 20 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: civil infrastructure
Impact: one of the largest attacks on the city. At least eight residential buildings damaged, with nearly ten apartments destroyed in one of them. A medical laboratory premises, shops, a beauty salon, food establishments, and local vehicles also damaged. One woman killed, six people injured.

22.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: at least 12 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: civil infrastructure
Impact: the attack caused significant destruction to civil infrastructure: a 25-story residential building, a supermarket, a sports hall, and an administrative building damaged, as well as over 30 vehicles, with at least 12 cars completely destroyed by fire. A 41-year-old local woman injured.

23.07.2025.
Region attacked: Bystry channel of the Danube, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: likely, a sea mine
Target: port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: a civilian dredger Inhulskyi of the SE Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority blown up during planned dredging works — most likely, by a sea mine, unlikely by a Russian USV. Three crew members killed and another eight injured and hospitalized.

24.07.2025.
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: more than 30 Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Target: civil infrastructure — likely, of the Port of Odesa
Impact: one of the largest attacks on Odesa by the number of UAV launches. The overnight assault caused significant damage to the city’s civilian infrastructure. In particular, a nine-story residential building sustained heavy damage with apartments from the 5th to the 8th floors destroyed. Office premises, a gas station, a two-story building, and several market pavilions at the Pryvoz market also damaged. Seven cultural heritage sites — four of which designated as monuments of national significance — hit. The sites are all located in the city center and are under the UNESCO protection.
As a result of the fire at the Pryvoz market, nearly 160 tons of pollutants were released into the atmosphere. The environmental damage is estimated at over 482,000 hryvnas. One man killed, while four other residents injured.

* * *

For reference:

Between January–December 2024, the BSN Monitoring Group recorded at least 140 Russian missile and UAV attacks on port, energy, and other infrastructure in Odesa Oblast, where the maritime corridor operates. During this period, the Ukrainian Navy destroyed at least 12 naval mines in the Black Sea, with at least 6 of them located in Odesa Oblast.

In 2024, Russian attacks damaged seven civilian vessels involved in the operation of Ukraine’s grain corridor:

1. July 10, 2024. ARTEY IMO: 8879251. Flag: Cameroon. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 3,584 tons. Type of ship: General Cargo Ship. Year of build: 1970. Registered owner: OVEN LTD c/o World Line Ltd Office 17, ul. Patona 17, Kherson, 73000, Ukraine. Ship manager/commercial manager: WORLD LINE LTD Office 17, ul. Patona 17, Kherson, 73000, Ukraine.
The vessel was damaged by missile fragments at the Port of Chornomorsk. Two people were killed—a security guard and a truck driver. A deckhand aboard the vessel was injured.

2. September 11, 2024. AYA. IMO: 9117868. Flag: St. Kitts and Nevis. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 27,239 tons. Type of ship: Bulk Carrier. Year of build: 1997. Registered owner: AYA MARITIME CO SA c/o VRS Maritime Services Ltd, Piraeus, Greece. Ship manager/commercial manager: VRS MARITIME SERVICES LTD, Piraeus, Greece. An air-launched anti-ship cruise missile Kh-22 fired from a Tu-22 bomber struck the bulk carrier transporting wheat from the Port of Chornomorsk to Egypt. The missile hit the vessel near Romania’s Port of Năvodari within Romania’s exclusive economic zone but outside its territorial waters. The ship sustained damage. The bulk carrier was likely not a target but was hit due to errors by the bomber crew during missile targeting or the use of outdated ammunition. The missile’s failure to detonate prevented a potentially catastrophic outcome.

3. September 20, 2024. GOLDEN LION. IMO: 9363974. Flag: Antigua and Barbuda. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 6,315 tons. Type of ship: General Cargo Ship. Year of build: 2006. Registered owner: LION NAVIGATION LTD c/o Astramar Transport Ltd (SIA 'Astramar Transport'), Riga, Latvia. Ship manager/commercial manager: ASTRAMAR TRANSPORT LTD Katrinas dambis 14, Riga, Latvia. The vessel was damaged during a ballistic missile Iskander-M strike on Odesa Sea Port. Port workers were injured in the attack; no crew members were harmed.

4. October 6, 2024. PARESA. IMO: 9008134. Flag: St. Kitts and Nevis. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 6,912 tons. Type of ship: General Cargo Ship. Year of build: 1992. Registered owner: PARESA SHIPPING CO Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Majuro MH Marshall Islands. Ship manager/commercial manager: PARESA SHIPPING CO Trust Company Complex Ajeltake Road Majuro MH Marshall Islands. The vessel was struck by a Russian ballistic missile Iskander-M near cargo hold No.2 at Pivdennyi Sea Port during grain loading operations. No crew members were injured. The owner refuted Russia’s claims that the vessel was transporting ammunition to Ukraine and thus constituted a legitimate military target.

5. October 7 and 14, 2024. OPTIMA. IMO: 9528691. Flag: Palau. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 5,834 tons. Type of ship: General Cargo Ship. Year of build: 2008. Registered owner/ship manager/commercial manager: USTA SHIPPING CO Piraeus, Greece. During a missile attack on October 7, a port worker (longshoreman) was killed and five crew members were injured.

6. October 9, 2024. SHUI SPIRIT. IMO: 9216729. Flag: Panama. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 21,614 tons. Type of ship: Container Ship. Year of build: 2000. Registered owner ROSEWINT INC c/o Nortada Shipmanagement Lda Funchal Portugal. Ship manager/commercial manager: NORTADA SHIPMANAGEMENT LDA Rua dos Murcas 15, Funchal Portugal. The vessel sustained damage at the Port of Chornomorsk during an attack on October 9; no crew members were injured. Eight people in the city and port were killed and eleven others injured—all Ukrainian citizens—four of whom were in critical condition. The missile targeted port infrastructure.

7. October 14, 2024. NS MOON. IMO: 8919855. Flag Belize. Deadweight tonnage(DWT) 2,717 tons. Type of ship: General Cargo Ship. Registered owner: MOON SHIPHOLDING LTD C/O: Cargo Shipping SP Z OO ul Mala Odrzanska 19, Szczecin, Poland. Ship manager/commercial manager: CARGO SHIPPING SP Z OO ul Mala Odrzanska 19, Szczecin, Poland.. The vessel sustained damage at Odesa Sea Port during an attack on October 14; no crew members were injured.

In 2025, Russian attacks damaged 6 civilian vessels involved in the operation of the Ukraine’s grain corridor:

1. 01.03.2025. Turkish bulk carrier SUPER SARKAS, IMO: 9221633. Flag: Sierra Leone. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 328495 tons. Type of ship: Bulk Carrier. Year of build: 2002. Registered owner: THOR SHIPPING & TRADING LTD Daire 20, Kat 5, Apartmani Blok10 Aydinli Yolu Caddesi Icmeler Mah, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey.
The vessel was damaged from an Iskander-M BM on the Port of Odesa.

2. 01.03.2025. Container ship MSC LEVANTE F, IMO: 9330264. Flag: Panama. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 13634 tons. Type of ship: Container ship. Year of build: 2006. Registered owner: LEVANTE OCEANWAY LTD C/O: MSC Shipmanagement Ltd MSC House, 8, Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue, 3070, Limassol, Cyprus. since 21/10/2021. MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. MMSI 352898711. Ship manager/commercial manager: MSC SHIPMANAGEMENT LTD MSC House, 8, Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue, 3070, Limassol, Cyprus. since 21/10/2021.
The vessel was damaged by an Iskander-M BM in the Port of Odesa.

3. 11.03.2025. Greek bulk carrier MJ PINAR, IMO: 9406052. Flag: Barbados. Deadweight tonnage (DWT): 30465 tons. Type of ship: Bulk Carrier. Year of build: 2009. The vessel was damaged by an Iskander-M BM in the Port of Odesa. Four crew members were killed, and another was injured.

4. 23.05.2025 — an Iskander-M damaged a container ship in the Port of Odesa (publicly available information has not been verified, name undisclosed).

5. 03.07.2025 — an Iskander-M damaged a vessel carrying rolled metal (name couldn’t be verified, flagged São Tomé and Principe).

6. 23.07.2025 - civilian dredger INGULSKY of the SE Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, was blown up on the Danube river’s mouth, likely, by a mine. 3 crew members killed.

The UN Grain Corridor operated from August 1, 2022, to July 17, 2023, when the agreement terminated due to Russia's withdrawal. The Ukrainian export corridor, that doesn’t include Russia or the UN, started operating on August 1, 2023, and continues today. The corridor passes through three ports of Odesa Oblast — Odesa Sea Port, Pivdennyi Sea Port and the Port of Chornomorsk — and the territorial waters of Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Romania.

Further details can be found at Ukrainian Black Sea Corridor as Russia's Key Military Target.

* * *

This publication has been produced with the support of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED). Its contents do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of EED. Responsibility for the information and views expressed in this publication lies entirely with the authors.