Database of Russian Attacks on Black Sea Ports Between January-December 2025

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

Based on the results of its 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.

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ALCM — air-launched cruise missile
ТОТ – temporarily occupied territories
UAV — unmanned aerial vehicle
OTRK -- operational tactical missile system
BM — ballistic missile
ALBM — air-launched hypersonic ballistic missile
CM — cruise missile
ARM -- anti-radiation missile
SLCM — sea-launched cruise missile
AShM — anti-ship missile
GBU -- guided bomb uni
Data taken from the official Air Force Command of the Armed Forces www.facebook.com/kpszsu and official channels of the regional administration.

Between January-December 2025, the Russian Army carried out at least 184 attacks* on ports of the Greater Odesa — Port of Odesa, Pivdennyi Port and Port of Chornomorsk — and Odesa Oblast**, as well as on region’s energy and industrial infrastructure. A variety of missiles and UAVs launched from the TOT of Crimea and Southern Ukraine, and the RF, have been used in the strikes, averaging one attack every two days. Those included no less than:

• 51 missile attacks of various types (13 in December, 3 in November, 2 in October, 3 in September, 3 in August, 1 in July, 4 in June, 5 in May, 3 in April, 3 in March, 6 in February and 5 in January)

• 145 attacks by strike and decoy UAVs of the Shahed-136/131, Geran/Gerbera and other types (31 in December, 27 in November, 13 — in October, 8 in September, 6 in August, 7 in July, 15 in June, 7 in May, 8 in April, 11 in March, 9 in February and 3 in January) 

• 4 attacks by small USVs (2 in October, 1 in August and 1 in June).

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

**From July onwards, June attacks on southern ports have been added to the total figures. In future, attacks on ports in southern Odessa Oblast and other areas of the region will also be included in the monitoring.

Together there have been 32 attacks in December, 29 in November, 16 attacks in October, 11 in September, 10 in August, 9 in July, 13 (+7) in June, 11 in May, 11 in April, 14 in March, 14 in February and 7 in January, totaling 184 in 2025.

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

• 61 Iskander CMs and BMs —15 in December, 3 in November, 3 in October, 6 in September, 5 in August, 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

• 12 Kh-31P ARMs — 1 in November, 1 (+1) in June, 3 in April, 4 in February and 2 in January

• 4 Kalibr SLCM — 3 in December and 1 in March

• 4 Oniks AShMs – 1 in June and 3 in April 

• 3 Kh-22 AShMs - all in June  

• 3 Banderol CM – all in May 

• 38 GBUs – 35 in December and 3 in October 

• 2 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ALBMs – first time use, none reported in January-November

• 5 USVs — 2 in October,1 in August and 2 in June

• 1,600 strike drones of various types. Estimates suggest that in December alone, Russian forces employed at least 400 strike drones in attacks on the Odesa region.
  The exact number of strike UAVs used in the attacks is not recorded, but it continues to increase steadily. Since the third quarter, there has been a significant growth in drone attacks and in the number of drones deployed during each strike — often several dozen in a single assault.
  In November and December, both the frequency of drone attacks and the number of drones involved rose sharply.
  The number of attacks in December reached 31, including both drone-only strikes and combined assaults involving missiles — the highest monthly figure of the year. The practice of double attacks within a day (night–day, morning–evening, etc.) has also persisted.
  Some attacks involved more than 50 UAVs; for example, on December 14, 130 strike drones were launched across different Regions of the region.

Main launch sites for the port infrastructure strikes:

• Missile: ballistic - TOT Crimea, ALCMs — Black Sea airspace
• UAV: Russian border regions with Ukraine, including with the TOT Crimea.

In January–December 2025, at least 33 naval mines were destroyed in the Odesa region through controlled detonation: 2 in December, 1 in November, 9 in October, 1 in September, 3 in August, 2 in July, 1 in June, 1 in May, 3 in April , 7 in March, 1 in February, and 2 in January.

Vessels and Craft Damaged (yearly data updated and verified):
Between January-December 2025 there were:
22 Russian attacks damaging 39 vessels and craft - 30 civilian vessels, 1 warship, 8 craft (barges and pontoons) - with confirmed civilian crew and port worker casualties, plus damage to port infrastructure: December - 9 (8 vessels, 1 craft), November - 10 (5 vessels, 3 barges, 2 pontoons), October - 3 (1 vessel, 2 craft), September - 3 vessels, August - 5 (including the warship), July - 5, May - 1, March - 3 vessels, no data for January-February available.
Vessels were attacked at Port of Odesa, Port of Chornomorsk, Port of Izmail, Danube region ports, Black Sea coastal waters, and Danube estuary. Attack weapons included BMs, strike UAVs, USVs, and sea mines. In November, the largest number of vessels were damaged in a single attack on Port of Izmail.
March
01.03.25 - bulker SUPER SARKAS (IMO 9221633, Sierra Leone flag) and containership MSC LEVANTE F (IMO 9330264, Panama flag) struck by a BM at Port of Odesa.
11.03.25 - bulker MJ Pinar (IMO 9406051, Barbados flag) damaged at Port of Odesa by a BM attack on the port, 4 crew members killed.
May
23.05.25 - Iskander-M BM damaged a containership at Port of Odesa (media information unconfirmed, ship name not reported).
July
03.07.25 - bulker AJ ROSE (IMO 9217785, St. Kitts and Nevis flag) damaged by Iskander-M BM at Port of Odesa (previously reported as unidentified vessel under São Tomé and Príncipe flag), 2 crew members killed.
06.07.25 - bulker Marika (IMO 9464534, Liberia flag), location of strike, damage details, and other data not established.
06.07.25 - dry cargo ship Zeibek (IMO 8213732, Moldova flag), location of strike, damage details, and other data not established.
08.07.25 - bulker Amadore (IMO 8520824, Malta flag), location of strike, damage details, and other data not established.
23.07.25 - explosion (likely mine) at Bystre estuary of Danube damaged civilian dredger Inhulskyi of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, 3 crew members killed.
August
08.08.25 - bulker Moayad Y (IMO 9135482, Comoros flag), deadweight nearly 24,000 tons, location of strike, damage details, and other data not established.
20.08.25 – chemical/product tanker Excellion (Panama flag, IMO 9428437) seriously damaged by blast wave and fire from strike UAVs targeting oil terminal at Port of Izmail.
28.08.25 - Ukrainian warship Simferopol attacked near pier in Danube estuary, 1 sailor killed, several wounded.
31.08.25 – dry cargo ship NS Pride (IMO 8815293, Belize flag) damaged by explosion on unknown munition while exiting Port of Chornomorsk.
31.08.25 - ferry Heroyi Shypky (IMO 7605770, Ukraine flag), transporting rail wagons on Chornomorsk-Varna line, damaged, likely at Port of Chornomorsk, damage details not established.
September
01.09.25 - SVIR (IMO 8866694, Russia flag) - under arrest, at Port of Izmail.
01.09.25 - oil tanker STL FORTIS (IMO 9109811, Tanzania flag) - under arrest, at Port of Izmail.
01.09.25 - NIKA SPIRIT (IMO 8895528, Russia flag, formerly NEYMA) - under arrest, at Port of Izmail.
October
12.10.25 - cargo vessel Eileen (IMO 9070503, Cameroon flag) - sustained a hull breach and sank in the Black Sea, 140 nautical miles east of the Bulgarian city of Varna.
22.10.25 – a barge and pontoon vessel were damaged (names and other details not established) at Port of Izmail.
November
17.11.25 – Tanker-gas carrier ORINDA (IMO 9240122, Turkish flag, operator BMA Denizcilik) damaged in Port of Izmail by UAV attack. Gas pumping equipment caught fire.
17.11.25 – unidentified vessel damaged by UAV attack at Port of Izmail (likely Palau-flagged tanker, name and details not established);
17.11.25 – Ukrainian-flagged tanker damaged at Port of Izmail by attack. Fire broke out, crew extinguished it themselves.
17.11.25 – three empty barges owned by Port of Izmail and Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration damaged.
17.11.25 – two pontoons damaged at Port of Izmail.
17.11.25 – former Russian vessel under ARMA (Asset Recovery and Management Agency) arrest damaged. Name and details not established. ARMA currently manages 16 vessels, at least 9 at Port of Izmail.
24.11.25 – at Port of Izmail, fire broke out on a non-operational vessel due to UAV attack, quickly extinguished by rescuers (vessel name and details unconfirmed).
December
12.12.25 - vessel M/V CENK T of Turkish ferry company Cenk Shipping RoRo (IMO 7528635, Panama flag) damaged by a BM.
13.12.25 - Turkish civilian tanker VIVA (IMO 9156539, Tuvalu flag) - attacked by Russian drone (likely Geran-2) in the Black Sea, Ukraine's exclusive economic zone.
22.12.25 - dry cargo ship, likely YOUSSEF BEY (IMO 9124029, Lebanon flag), carrying Ukrainian soybeans, attacked by strike UAV in the evening, likely Port of Odesa;
23.12.25 – bulker ANKA (IMO 9365415, Tanzania flag, formerly Victoria) - under arrest (Russia’s shadow fleet, illegal grain export from TOT Crimea) - damaged at Reni Port during UAV attack, likely Geran-2.
26.12.25 - barge (likely Slovakia flag) damaged in missile-drone strike, likely at Port of Izmail.
26.12.25 - civilian vessel under Slovakia flag (name and details not established) damaged in missile-drone strike, likely at Port of Izmail.
26.12.25 - civilian vessel under Palau Republic flag (likely bulker Floki, IMO 8503096, Palau flag) damaged in missile-drone strike, likely at Port of Izmail.
30.12.25 – bulker Captain Karam (IMO 9303039, Panama flag) damaged during missile-drone attack while approaching Port of Chornomorsk.
30.12.25 - bulker Emmakris III (IMO 9218387, Panama flag) damaged in missile-drone attack, under arrest for illegal grain export from TOT Crimea, at Port of Chornomorsk.

Overall, between January-December 2025, there have been 2,689 calls made to the three Greater Odesa ports by ships involved in the export corridor operation: 229 in December, 266 in November, 266 in October, 183 in September, 195 in August, 180 in July, 186 in June, 233 in May, 202 in April, 242 in March, 213 in February and 204 in January.

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Database of Russian Attacks on Black Sea Ports
Between January-December 2025

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.

August 2025

04.08.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: civil and warehouse infrastructure
Impact: a fire broke out at the Radio Market in Odesa because of the strikes, which damaged fifty trade pavilions and destroyed eight of them. The historic Peresyp Synagogue in Odesa was also seriously damaged. In Odesa district, two buildings, two warehouses, a private house, and six passenger cars damaged.

06.08.2025
Region attacked: Izmail district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: gas infrastructure
Impact: at night, Russian Forces struck the Orlivka gas compressor station in Odesa Oblast near the Romanian border. The resulting fire completely destroyed the production equipment. Due to damage to the main gas pipeline, 2,500 subscribers were temporarily disconnected.
The station is part of the main gas pipeline for gas transit to Europe and reverse supplies to Ukraine. The Orlivka gas compressor station is involved in the Ukraine-Azerbaijan gas supply agreement, enabling both transit to Europe and reverse shipments to Ukraine. This facility is covered by the recently signed agreement between Baku and Kyiv on supplying Azerbaijani gas.

08.08.2025
Region attacked: Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: oil and critical infrastructure, likely Port of Odesa
Impact: strikes partially destroyed a sewage pumping station, while damaging administrative and technical buildings at a local company and injuring a 54-year-old security guard. Russian Forces also launched strike UAVs at the SOCAR oil depot, with the resulting fire damaging a diesel fuel pipeline. Four workers seriously injured.

18.08.2025
Region attacked: Odesa district, suburbs of Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: oil, civil, port-adjacent, and logistics infrastructure
Impact: civil infrastructure in Odesa and the suburbs damaged, including a fuel and energy facility, a logistics company's premises, two private houses, and two vehicles, while a sewage pumping station has been destroyed.
The strike also destroyed the SOCAR oil depot: all 17 storage tanks with a combined capacity of over 16,000 m3 damaged, along with a pump station building, control room, weighing station, and technical facilities. The previous attack on this depot occurred on August 8, causing a fire that was promptly extinguished.

19.08.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 BM Iskander-M launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: critical or port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: Odesa Oblast was attacked in an air-raid alert that lasted from 00:59 to 01:32 a.m. The Air Force reported a potential BM threat, and a fast-moving object was later spotted, traveling northwest within the region.

19.08.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: likely, 2 BM Iskander-M
Targets: critical or port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: at around10 p.m., Russian Forces attacked Odesa Oblast with BMs for the second time that day. Two explosions heard in Odesa. No further informationavailable.

20.08.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Izmail district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs (21 were downed over Odesa Oblast)
Targets: oil, port-adjacent infrastructure, Port of Izmail and a chemical tanker
Impact: during a night attack on the Port of Izmail, a fuel and energy facility damaged and a large fire broke out, injuring a single person. Industrial and infrastructure facilities in Izmail also damaged, including port-adjacent infrastructure.
According to Russian sources, a fire broke out at the Triton oil depot and in the port waters. The Excellion tanker (flagged Panama) got hit by a blast wave, which caused fire that damaged the starboard superstructure, cable channels, and some valves and pump modules. Reports suggest that at least two other foreign vessels unloaded in the port at the time, but no information about possible damage was released.

20.08.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: likely 2 BM Iskander-M
Targets: energy and port-adjacent infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, explosions were heard by Odesa Oblast residents. Monitoring resources reported the use of BMs, likely from occupied Crimea. The air-raid alert was announced at 6:06 p.m., followed by explosions in the city of Tatarbunary. Another explosion recorded at 6:23 p.m. in the same area. No information on the consequences available.

28.08.2025
Region attacked: Danube River, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: small high-speed US
Targets: port-adjacent infrastructure, military vessel
Impact: in the Danube estuary near the pier, the Ukrainian vessel Simferopol was attacked, one sailor killed and several others wounded.

31.08.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy infrastructure, Ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk
Impact: Chornomorsk and its suburbs suffered the most damage. Four energy facilities, administrative and warehouse premises of several companies, and the roof of a private house damaged and three cars destroyed by fire. Approximately 30,000 customers left without electricity, thousands lost access to water supply. By the evening, 26,700 families in 25 settlements remained without power supply. One person injured.  

31.08.2025 (updated with additional info on the damages vessels).
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy infrastructure, Ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk
Impact: Chornomorsk and its surrounding areas sustained the heaviest damage, including four power facilities, administrative and warehouse buildings belonging to multiple enterprises, and the roof of a private residence. A fire consumed three vehicles, leaving roughly 30,000 subscribers without power and thousands more without running water; by evening, 26,700 households across 25 settlements were still in the dark, with one individual injured.

The UAV strike also damaged at least two civilian vessels:

• Dry cargo ship NS Pride (IMO 8815293, Belize flag), bound for Romania's Sulina port, hit by an unknown munition detonation as it departed Port of Chornomorsk, which is located southwest of Odesa. Media speculation included a sea mine blast, Russian unmanned boat assault, or impact with unexploded ordnance from a prior Russian UAV that plunged into the sea during a port raid. Russian outlets referenced British maritime security company Ambrey, whose analysts attributed the blasts to dud Russian UAV munitions after spotting several downed drones adrift outside the port on video.
• Ferry Heroyi Shypky (IMO 7605770, Ukraine flag), carrying rail wagons along the Chornomorsk–Varna route; damaged, probably at Port of Chornomorsk extent of damage unknown.

September 2025

02.09.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: Port of Izmail infrastructure
Impact: port-adjacent infrastructure and property of several enterprises damaged. A young man injured.

04.09.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 2 Iskander-M BMs
Targets: grain storage infrastructure
Impact: during the day, Russian forces shelled Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District of Odesa Oblast with two BMs, damaging a farm, specifically grain storage facilities. One person injured.

04.09.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Odesa District, Odesa Oblast.
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: industrial and warehouse infrastructure
Impact: a fire broke out in a warehouse in Odesa, cargo truck damaged. In the district, premises of several enterprises and 8 vehicles damaged.

07.09.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and towns in Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: grain storage infrastructure
Impact: in the morning, Russian forces massively attacked Odesa District and a regional settlement with UAVs. The attack partially destroyed Odesa's sports-and-concert venue and damaged two apartment buildings. Nearby settlements in Odesa District and a village in Odesa Oblast saw a 5-story building, grain warehouses, and 7 vehicles damaged, with the Sports Palace and Botanical Garden also affected. Three civilians injured.

10.09.2025
Region attacked: Izmail District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: warehouse infrastructure, likely Port of Izmail
Impact: warehouse premises and outbuilding attacked.

20.09.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: an agricultural facility
Impact: a 1000 m2-large farm building destroyed. Partial damage to warehouses of another farm and agricultural equipment.

22.09.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: likely 2 Iskander-M BMs
Targets: energy infrastructure or the Port of Odesa
Impact: after 9 PM due to enemy attack in Kyiv District of Odesa, two explosions occurred one following the other. 9 residential buildings and an educational institution damaged.

23.09.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: at least 2 Iskander-M BMs
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: Russian BMs hit Tatarbunary's civilian infrastructure overnight into September 23, leveling buildings at two recreation bases while damaging three others, four enterprise offices, and three vehicles. Fires were reported in the town’s center, with the hotel, Ukrposhta, Ukrtelecom, House of Culture, and TsNAP buildings destroyed. The strike triggered a partial blackout affecting about 800 subscribers. One person killed and two injured. 

26.09.2025
Region attacked: Podilsk district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: transport, energy and railway infrastructure
Impact: overnight, RF struck a railway traction substation in Chubivka settlement, Podilsk District, knocking out an Ukrzaliznytsia's contact line. Odesa Oblast Military Administration reported damage to transport infrastructure transformers and a resulting fire.

27.09.2025
Region attacked: Podilsk district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: transport and railway infrastructure
Impact: Russian UAVs hit railway infrastructure at Bilyne station in Podilsk District of Odesa Oblast, where the explosion damaged two Ukrzaliznytsia traction transformers. Ukrzaliznytsia later reported that in the morning Russian drone had struck the Odesa Oblast railway infrastructure, without disclosing the exact location. Passenger trains were stopped at safe distances from impact areas, halting operations temporarily before resuming later.

28.09.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: warehouse infrastructure
Impact: due to nighttime attack in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, a workshop and finished goods warehouse of a wine factory were destroyed. Fire also damaged the roof and glazing of a neighboring private house.

October 2025

1.10.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: Port of Izmail infrastructure
Impact: Fires engulfed berthing and warehouse areas. According to unofficial data, at least one of three transshipment complexes handling coal, metal, and grain was damaged, along with berths used for ship repair and handling petroleum products.

2.10.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: railway transport infrastructure
Impact: massive drone strikes damaged transport infrastructure, causing fire at the Ukrzaliznytsia depot and harming a nearby private house. Two people, including a train driver, were injured.

5.10.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: at night, explosions were heard in Odesa during an air-raid alert, but regional officials reported all incoming drones downed, with no recorded damage or casualties.

6.10.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: at night, strike drones hit a civilian industrial site in Odesa Oblast, causing a fire that was swiftly extinguished. No casualties or destruction were reported.

8.10.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy and critical infrastructure
Impact: at around midnight, residents of Odesa and Odesa District heard a powerful explosion amid an announced UAV alert, while reportedly, an enemy drone was downed. Subsequently, according to the DTEK Odesa Electric Networks, 896 households in Odesa and Odesa District, including the city’s Cheremushky neighborhood and the Mala Dolyna and Velykodolynske settlements, lost power.
The reported damage to the Odesa District included that to the glazing of a civilian infrastructure facility and an outbuilding, with a fire quickly extinguished.

9.10.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy and port infrastructure, Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: at night, heavy attacks on Chornomorsk damaged power infrastructure, triggering a major fire in the port area, that engulfed containers with civilian cargo (oil and fuel pellets), also hitting vehicles, six nearby private houses, a fuel station, and an administrative building.

11.10.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Odesa district, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: at night, a large-scale enemy strike damaged power-generation facilities in Odesa Oblast, cutting electricity shortly after 1:00 A.M. to more than 75,000 customers, and gas supply — to 260. A three-story hotel-restaurant complex, two private houses, and glazing on one floor of a 25-story residential building was also damaged. A civilian woman was injured and hospitalized. In Peresyp District, a multi-apartment building and two dormitories were hit. In Khadjibey District, around ten private houses sustained varying degrees of damage, one of them — heavy.

12.10.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Podilskyi Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: civil, energy and gas infrastructure
Impact: at around 3 A.M., strikes on Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi damaged a power facility, temporarily disrupting electricity and water in parts of the city. The attack destroyed a summer camp canteen building, which caught fire, and damaged the two-story local administration building, a non-operational hotel, and nearby private houses, injuring one civilian woman who required hospitalization.
In Podilsk Region, the attack damaged a gas-transport facility and an outbuilding.

12.10.2025
Region attacked: Black Sea, area of the city of Varna (Bulgaria)
Weapon/Carrier: likely, a mine or USV
Targets: civilian vessel
Impact: 140 nautical miles east of the Bulgarian city of Varna, the cargo vessel Eileen (IMO 9070503), traveling from the Turkish port of Bartın to Ukraine (likely, Izmail), suffered a hull breach and sank. The distress signal was sent shortly after 1:00 P.M.
A Bulgarian border cutter, a Romanian vessel, a nearby Turkish auxiliary ship, and the supply vessel MURAT ILHAN all headed to the wreck site. The supply vessel found two life rafts carrying all ten crew members from Eileen, which had already sunk by then. All ten Ukrainian sailors were rescued. The cause of the sinking was not reported.

13.10.2025
Region attacked: Avangard village, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: warehouse infrastructure
Impact: strikes on four warehouses storing textiles and packing materials sparked fires engulfing over 5,000 m², that consumed fabrics, footwear, and other goods and injured one man.
Explosions were also heard in Odesa, likely from the air-defense operation.

17.10.2025
Region attacked: Black Sea near Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Russian USV
Targets: civil vessels
Impact: a Ukrainian Navy unit detected and destroyed a Russian USV in Ukraine’s territorial waters in the Black Sea near the civilian shipping lanes off Odesa Oblast.

20.10.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs (at least 15 downed), Iskander-M BM/KN-23 launched from TOT Crimea
Targets: Pivdennyi Port infrastructure
Impact: at night, Russia launched a combined missile-and-drone attack on Odesa Oblast, with the air-raid alert lasting from 11:41 p.m. on October 19 to 12:33 a.m. on October 20, and a ballistic threat emerging around midnight.
At Pivdennyi Port, several facilities and premises sustained damage, but fires were quickly contained, port workers remained unharmed in shelters, and trains to some regional ports were temporarily halted for safety reasons.

22.10.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy and port infrastructure, Port of Izmail
Impact: enemy shelling of Izmail caused damage to the energy and port infrastructure facilities. Namely, DTEK Odesa Electric Networks power plant sustained severe damage, with significant harm to the Izmail substation, including to the two transformers, high-voltage equipment, and the power distribution building. As a result, more than 20,000 customers in Izmail and the villages of Bahate and Safiany lost power. Critical infrastructure had to be switched to generators, while schools had to move to remote learning.
Several fires broke out in the port, with power supply disruptions recorded within the area. No casualties or injuries have been reported.
The shelling wrecked containers with sand, the upper part of a barge, and the weighbridge building on the quay. A pontoon vessel at one of Izmail’s enterprises was also cracked.

The attack occurred as part of a large-scale combined assault across Ukraine. On that same night, Romania scrambled four fighter jets to patrol its airspace, since surveillance systems had detected a group of aerial targets moving toward the Kiliya arm and the Danube delta area.
Around 12:50 a.m., two F-16 aircraft from the 86th Borcea Air Base took off to monitor the situation. Approximately ten explosions were reported on Ukrainian territory near the settlements of Izmail and Kiliya in Odesa Oblast. No UAVs were detected in Romanian airspace.
At about 2:35 a.m., two more Eurofighter Typhoons took off from the 57th Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base to conduct reinforced air patrol missions over Romanian skies.
According to the Romania’s Ministry of Defense, the mission commander held prior authorization to engage any aerial targets entering Romanian territory and threatening the safety of its citizens.

24.10.2025
Region attacked: Pivdennyi, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: SU-34 medium bomber – 3 GBU (first time used in Odesa Oblast) or FAB 500, upgraded with a gliding module and a rocket engine
Targets: civil and port infrastructure, likely Pivdennyi Port
Impact: at around 1:30 p.m., monitoring channels tracked a guided bomb heading toward Pivdennyi/Chornomorsk, followed by an explosion. Southern air-defense forces shot down two long-range GBUs from a Su-34, with a third landing in open terrain resulting in no casualties or damage. Regional authorities described the guided bombs as a new threat to Odesa Oblast.

29.10.2025
Region attacked: Podilsk, Podilsk Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy and transport infrastructure
Impact: at about 3:37 a.m., Podilsk residents reported at least nine powerful blasts that injured one man, and damaged residential buildings and energy and transport facilities, leaving parts of the city without both power and water and causing blackout at 50 region's settlements.
Due to safety risks and power outages, Ukrzaliznytsia announced delays to two suburban trains.

31.10.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike and decoy UAVs
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: at night, another drone attack hit energy facilities in Odesa Oblast, with at least one industrial site struck, causing a fire that emergency services quickly extinguished with no reported casualties.

November 2025

02.11.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: logistics infrastructure
Impact: at night, Russian forces attacked the region with UAVs, setting five trucks ablaze in an open parking lot. At the Safianivka community lot, empty gas carriers and a grain-loaded truck were damaged. Two civilians were killed, and three others, including a truck driver — injured.

04.11.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (over 10 drones)
Targets: energy and port infrastructure, likely Port of Izmail
Impact: around 1:30 A.M., drones hit port and energy facilities in Izmail, including a substation that caught fire, and high-voltage equipment throughout the city, with one enterprise suffering damage to the road surface and a two-story equipment workshop. Rescuers quickly extinguished the fires.
Romania’s Ministry of Defense reported scrambling jets in response to the attack: two F-16s from Fetesti Air Base at 12:17 A.M. and two German Eurofighter Typhoons from Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base at 2:45 A.M. The ministry stated that overnight, November 3- 4, Russian forces carried out two attacks on Ukrainian port infrastructure along the Danube River, with multiple explosions observed on the Ukrainian side.

07.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Region, Odesa, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: overnight, Russian forces hit energy sites, damaging a warehouse and an admin building.

07.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa District (Odesa), Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, Russian forces struck power facility in the Odesa District, leaving 700 customers without power on the next morning.

09.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa District (Odesa), Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: overnight, UAVs hit two private homes in the Odesa District, damaging the roofs and an automobile, and destroying a garage. A gas pipe was also struck, causing fire. No casualties reported.

09.11.2025
Region attacked: southern districts regions of Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: around 10:00 A.M. Russian forces hit southern Odesa Oblast. UAVs were reportedly en route to Chornomorsk, hitting targets that caused at least two explosions. The attack damaged several private garages - one destroyed- and windows of a multi-story residential building.

10.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa suburbs, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: in the morning, strike UAVs hit Odesa Oblast, igniting the façade of a four-story residential building, which rescuers quickly extinguished. No casualties reported. Air raid alerts were declared three times due to the ongoing UAV threat toward Odesa.

10.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: Russian forces targeted civilian infrastructure in Odesa Oblast, triggering ten air alerts throughout the day. In the Odesa District, an enemy drone struck the roof of a private residence, destroying the roof and ceiling. No fires or casualties reported. 

11.11.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Reni, Izmail and Reni Regions
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy, rail and port infrastructure, likely Port of Izmail, Port of Reni
Impact: overnight, Russian forces struck Danube ports, damaging energy and industrial sites in Izmail District. Explosions near the Port of Izmail around 1:00 A.M. left one person injured and damaged a house and car. Civil energy and transport facilities in southern Odesa Oblast, including an Ukrzaliznytsia depot and administrative buildings, were also hit. The main target of the attack that left 16,000 households without power was, most likely, a key port and rail hub of Reni. Romania’s Defense Ministry found drone debris 5 km from the border near Grindu in Tulcea County, and no jets were launched due to low clouds.

12.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 and other types strike UAVs
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: overnight, a Russian strike damaged a multi-story residential building in Odesa’s Peresyp District, setting the upper floors of an under-construction structure on fire, that eventually, went out on its own.

12.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types; 1 Kh-31P anti-radar missile
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: around 2:00 P.M., UAVs hit Odesa, damaging the facade of a sanatorium and the balcony of a residential complex. No fires or casualties reported. At the same time, a suspected downed Kh-31P missile exploded in an open area, causing no damage or injuries.

13.11.2025
Region attacked: Artsyz, Bolhrad Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: critical and energy infrastructure
Impact: Artsyz experienced one of the war’s largest drone attacks, with up to 29 explosions between 3:30 A.M. and 7:30 A.M. A critical facility, administrative building, and repair shops were damaged, and a railway repair shop’s roof was destroyed by fire. Ukrenergo reported an energy facility hit elsewhere in Odesa Oblast, though details remain unspecified.

14.11.2025
Region attacked: a southern district of Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: overnight, UAVs hit energy sites at an unspecified location, setting them ablaze and damaging a nearby private house and garage. One civilian injured.

14.11.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: Russian forces struck Chornomorsk market during the day, killing two women aged 70 and 53 and injuring ten people, including a 1.5-year-old child. The blast hit shop facades, private vehicles, and a city square, destroying three cars and damaging fifteen, as well as shattering windows of a nearby college.The alert lasted from 10 00 A.M to 10:30 A.M.

16.11.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: overnight, UAVs damaged energy facilities, including a solar plant. Parts of the city and critical infrastructure lost power, prompting scheduled water supply. After midnight, drones moved toward the Mayaky community, likely targeting another solar plant there.

17.11.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Izmail Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy and port infrastructure, Port of Izmail, several civilian vessels including one foreign
Impact: throughout the night, Russian forces launched a massive UAV attack on Izmail. Explosions occurred in two waves, around 1:00 A.M. and 2:30 A.M., damaging a DTEK power facility, port infrastructure, and several civilian vessels. Parts of Izmail and the village of Broska lost power, with over 32,000 households in Odesa region left without electricity by morning as critical infrastructure switched to backup supply. The attack on the Port of Izmail lasted until 3:00 A.M., damaging at least three ships. The Ukrainian Navy had warned ten vessels to relocate; seven complied, while three remained and were hit. Among them was the Turkish LPG tanker Orinda (IMO 9240122) carrying 4,000 tons of liquefied gas. A fire was extinguished within a day, and all 16 crew members evacuated safely. Another damaged vessel, likely a Palau-flagged tanker, saw an 18 year first officer wounded by shrapnel. Three empty barges, two pontoons, a Ukrainian-flagged tanker, and a Russian vessel under ARMA management sustained damage. Due to fire risk aboard Orinda, Romanian authorities evacuated residents of Plauru village across the Danube in Tulcea County.

21.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil and industrial facilities
Impact: around 2:00 A.M., UAVs hit civilian sites in Odesa, causing at least three explosions. In the private sector, 32 homes were damaged (two destroyed), along with two enterprise buildings, three cars, and two trucks. Five civilians injured, three of them hospitalized.

21.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136, Gerbera strike UAVs and other types (at least 49 downed/jammed)
Targets: civil and critical infrastructure
Impact: during the day, at around 7:00 A.M., UAVs targeted civilian sites in Odesa, prompting a seven-hour air alert with multiple attack waves. Falling debris and non-detonating impacts damaged private homes, apartments, outbuildings, administrative buildings, and vehicles, injuring two civilians. According to Air Command South, 49 Russian drones were downed or jammed, preventing critical damage.

22.11.2025
Region attacked: Reni, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil and port infrastructure
Impact: Around 1:30 A.M., UAVs attacked civil port infrastructure in the Reni of Odesa Oblast, significantly damaging the Orlivka ferry complex near the Romanian border. The site sustained over 20 hits, disrupting infrastructure and communications. The international Orlivka border checkpoint temporarily suspended operations. Administrative buildings suffered various damage — facades destroyed, roofs partially torn, and windows shattered. Eleven trucks were hit, while a public dining facility destroyed. Fires broke out at power facilities and in a former industrial building. No ferry damage reported. Two civilians were injured and hospitalized. Ferry operations partially resumed in test mode about a week after the attack. Orlivka is a modern river border crossing on the Danube, connecting Ukraine (Orlivka village, Odesa region) with Romania (Isaccea). Opened in 2020, it provides the shortest route to Southern Europe and Turkey, serving passenger cars, freight trucks (TIR), and pedestrians. The Orlivka–Isaccea route operates two ferries.

22.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil and port infrastructure
Impact: during the day, UAVs targeted Odesa. According to the Air Force, the drones were launched from the Black Sea and headed toward Chornomorsk, Odesa, Chornomorske, and Pivdenne. An explosion was reported in Odesa at around 3:43 P.M., nearly an hour after the air alert began. No further details available.

22.11.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: loud explosions heard in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi around 8:00 P.M. Several fires broke out in different areas as a result of the shelling, but were quickly extinguished. Blast waves cracked windows and shattered glass of several apartment blocks.

23.11.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: critical infrastructure
Impact: overnight, UAVs targeted critical infrastructure facilities in Odesa and the Oblast, damaging an abandoned industrial building in the city. As a result of the night attacks, 10,097 consumers were left without power.

23.11.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: around 7:00 A.M., strike drones attacked the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. In one of the most massive attacks on the city, at least 30 houses were partially destroyed or severely damaged, including facades, windows, roofs, and fences. A shrapnel-loaded UAV exploded in the middle of a residential street, cutting power lines while descending and crashed before detonating. The explosion tore off roofs, shattered windows, and bent fences, while shrapnel damaged residents’ property. Also, multiple vehicles sustained significant damage. No casualties reported.

24.11.2025
Region attacked: Izmail, Izmail Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: port infrastructure, Port of Izmail
Impact: overnight, Russian forces attacked the city of Izmail, striking civilian port infrastructure and damaging port equipment. A fire broke out on a decommissioned vessel but was promptly extinguished by emergency crews. No casualties or injuries reported.

24.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: critical and energy infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, strike drones targeted Odesa. At least two explosions were reported around 7:08 P.M. The attack caused power outages in several districts, disrupting electric transport. Six trolleybus and seven tram routes were temporarily suspended.

25.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa District, Odesa, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: critical, energy and port infrastructure, Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: overnight, UAVs continued to attack Odesa and the Odesa district, damaging critical infrastructure facilities as well as road surfaces and a public transport stop. Fires broke out at port and energy sites, damaging equipment. Damage was also recorded at the Port of Chornomorsk. Several schools in Odesa’s Prymorskyi and Peresyp districts switched to online learning due to a lack of heating as a result of the attack. Six people were injured, including two 13-year-old boys, two 24-year-old women, a 40-year-old man, and an 80-year-old man.

27.11.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: overnight, UAVs struck civilian infrastructure at a undisclosed location. The attack damaged a riding school, several private houses, and a gas station. No casualties or injuries reported.

27.11.2025
Region attacked: Likely Rozdilna District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 1 Iskander-M BM from TOT Crimea
Targets: civil infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, Russian forces launched an Iskander-M BM on the Oblast, with an explosion reported around 8:02 P.M. The location of strike, damage details, and other data not established. Monitoring channels indicated that the missile was heading toward Rozdilna, a border city near Moldova that hosts a key junction of the Odesa Railway and part of an international transport corridor. The Rozdilna district has been targeted by Russian forces multiple times before.

29.11.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: 2 Iskander-M BM from TOT Crimea
Targets: civil and critical infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, Russian forces launched two IskanderM BMs from the south at the Odesa Oblast. The air alert lasted from 7:04 to 7:24 P.M. An explosion was heard around 7:00 P.M., but the location and consequences are unknown. Monitoring channels reported another BM strike toward the village of Tuzly in the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi district, where an explosion occurred around 11:00 P.M. No details on the impact were reported.

December 2025

01.12.2025
Region attacked: Ovidiopol community, Odesa Region of Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: oil infrastructure
Impact: morning drone strikes sparked fires in two Ovidiopol buildings. An infrastructure facility was damaged, triggering a fire that ignited an inactive oil depot and released nearly 20 tons of hazardous substances into the atmosphere.

02.12.2025
Region attacked: Bolhrad and Izmail Regions, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (over 20 spotted)
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: overnight attack devastated Bolhrad's transformer substation and partially destroyed an administrative building. Roofs and windows in 10 nearby homes were damaged. DTEK facility strike cut power to part of Safianivka community and Izmail city, affecting over 36,000 households. Bolhrad shelling released 90 tons of CO₂ with damages estimated at 300,000 UAH. Out of 20 UAVs, 18 targeted the Regions, with air defenses intercepting 11.

03.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (13 downed)
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: a night strike damaged an energy facility, causing a temporary power outage, which was restored by morning. One civilian was seriously injured and taken to hospital. 13 drones were downed.

04.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (17 downed)
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: as a result of the overnight attack in Odesa, a DTEK energy infrastructure facility was once again hit. According to preliminary data, an administrative building nearby, eight residential apartment blocks, 28 cars, and five garages were also affected. In total, more than 51,000 households were left without power. Parts of the Peresyp District remained without electricity, and several tram routes have been shortened or canceled. In the Region, 2,370 windows were shattered across 1,086 apartments.
Seven people were injured, all of whom were taken to hospital. During the attack, a fire engine belonging to the State Emergency Service unit was also damaged — while crews were responding to the aftermath of the initial strike, the enemy launched another drone attack. No rescuers were hurt. According to local residents, there were around ten strikes at various locations. During the assault on the Odesa region, air defenses downed or neutralized 17 strike UAVs, including Shahed, Gerbera, and other.

06.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (28 downed), 2 Iskander-M BMs from TOT Crimea, 3 Kalibr SLCMs (downed)
Targets: energy infrastructure, port infrastructure, Pivdennyi Port
Impact: explosions were heard in the Odesa Region as a result of the overnight attack. A DTEK energy infrastructure facility was once again hit, though no fire occurred. Several settlements were left without electricity. Around 9,500 customers lost heating, and 34,000 were left without water supply.

This marks the fourth attack this week on DTEK’s energy facilities. On December 2, Russia struck an energy facility in southern Odesa region; on December 3 — in the Odesa Region; and on December 4 — in the city of Odesa itself. Russia also targeted the infrastructure of the Pivdennyi port, directing about 15 drones and several missiles toward the city. The strike caused hits on energy facilities and damage to infrastructure, administrative buildings, and vehicles. Parts of the city temporarily lost power, water, and heating. The port, however, continued operating. At 07:04, the Air Force reported a group of Kalibr missiles passing near the city of Pivdenne. In total, southern Ukraine’s air defenses shot down or suppressed three Kalibr cruise missiles and 28 UAVs, including Shahed, Gerbera, and other models.

10.12.2025
Region attacked: Ananiiv city, Podilsk Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: critical infrastructure
Impact: locals counted over 30 explosions in Ananiiv's largest attack since the start of the invasion. Night strikes ignited a critical infrastructure facility and damaged warehouse premises.
(Note: Ananiiv lies along Tiligul River, 15 km from Zherebkyve cargo and passenger rail station near Moldova's “PMR” border).

11.12.2025
Region attacked: Reni city, Izmail Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: critical infrastructure
Impact: night strikes damaged Reni critical facilities, an administrative building, two-story residential glazing, and two private homes. Around 16,000 households lost power.

12.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Targets: energy infrastructure
Impact: night massed attack triggered five explosions between 2:00 and 2:07 A.M.., followed by drone sounds, damaging civilian and energy facilities alongside administrative and warehouse buildings. Fires broke out at Odesa Region warehouses, administrative buildings, and garages. Two Oblast energy sites were hit including one DTEK Odesa Power Grids facility. Equipment and power lines were wrecked, blacking out 130,000 households. Four tram routes were suspended, four more shortened, and water supply halted in Kyiv, Peresyp, and Khadzhbey Regions. Twenty DTEK substations were damaged region-wide to date.

12.12.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk and Odesa
Weapon/Carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types, 3 Iskander-M/KN-23 BMs
Targets: civilian and port infrastructure, Port of Odesa, Port of Chornomorsk, civilian
Impact: in daytime Russian forces launched combined BM and UAV strikes across Odesa region, hitting civilian and port infrastructure at Port of Odesa and Port of Chornomorsk. Port of Odesa saw private company worker injured alongside container handler damage. Port of Chornomorsk vessel M/V CENK T (IMO 7528635, Panama flag) of Turkish Cenk Shipping RoRo took a BM hit near the pier and caught fire. Some reports claim that the vessel carried tomato trucks, while others say that it was diesel generators and heaters.

12.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Region
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: port infrastructure, Port of Odesa
Impact: in the evening, Russian forces again attacked Odesa Region. Despite active air defense, a port infrastructure facility in Port of Odesa was damaged, causing a fire that rescuers quickly extinguished. This was the second strike on this facility that day. During the evening drone attack between 8:28 P.M. and 9:04 P.M., at least five explosions were heard in the city. During the cleanup after the strike, Russian forces launched a repeated attack while rescuers were working on site, damaging firefighting vehicles. In total, air raid alerts in Odesa Region on December 12 sounded seven times.

13.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Artsyz and Podilsk
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types, 2 Kh47M2 Kinzhal (ALCM/OTRK) and 5 IskanderM/KN23 BM
Target: energy and port infrastructure
Impact: the night and morning saw one of the biggest missile strikes on Odesa Region’s energy and urban infrastructure, targeting power distribution and transmission facilities and port sites. Explosions from CM and BM strikes were heard in Odesa, Odesa Region and Podilsk around 1:30 A.M. A new air raid alert started at 2:26 A.M. due to nationwide missile danger after a MiG31K (Kinzhal carrier) take-off. Explosions were heard in Odesa at 2:36 A.M. and in Podilsk at 2:38 A.M, the all-clear came at 2:50 A.M. At 5:40 A.M., new explosions were recorded in Odesa Region, and later, at 7:39 A.M., elsewhere in the region. After the missile strike, UAVs attacked the oblast again early in the morning. The night and morning attacks caused fires at energy facilities and textile warehouses. Residential buildings were damaged, including a two-story house and five private homes and over twenty private houses in the village of In Sarata. An administrative building, civilian vehicles and a fire truck were also hit. The energy sites had their power supply shut off, and much of the city lost heating and water. All traction substations went offline, halting trams and trolleybuses. The power supply in Odesa suffered severe disruptions due to damage to substations and electrical grids. In Artsyz, the energy infrastructure was struck twice — first at night, when a BM attack hit a power substation, and again in the morning, when the same facility was targeted by Shahed-type drones. The substation was nearly destroyed, leaving the town without electricity. Over 600,000 households in Odesa Region lost power, including settlements of the Vylkove, Kiliia, Katlabuh and Safiany communities and part of Izmail. Due to security risks, five suburban trains were suspended and two more rerouted. Three people were injured in the night and morning attacks. For the first time, Russia struck Odesa Region (likely the northern parts, since explosions were heard in Podilsk) with two Kh47M2 Kinzhal ALBMs during an air raid from 2:26 A.M. to 2:50 A.M. The region was also hit by five IskanderM/KN23 BM.

13.12.2025
Region attacked: Black Sea
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAV
Target: port infrastructure, Port of Odesa; civilian vessel
Impact: during the day in the Black Sea, a Russian UAV hit the Turkish tanker VIVA (IMO 9156539, Tuvalu flag), built in 1999 and carrying Ukrainian sunflower oil to Egypt via the grain corridor. The strike occurred within Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone but beyond the reach of Ukrainian air defenses. All 11 Turkish crew members were unharmed. Later that day, Russian forces launched two additional attacks on Odesa Port, sparking fires in grain storage facilities and damaging nearby administrative, residential, and energy infrastructure.

14.12.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (at least 130 launched), 4 GBU (Su34 can carry 2–8 per sortie)
Target: energy, industrial, transport, critical infrastructure, bridge in Zatoka.
Impact: during the night, Russian forces carried out another large-scale UAV attack on Odesa Oblast, damaging energy, transport, industrial, and civilian infrastructure. In the morning, the strikes continued with GBUs, UAVs, and other high-speed targets, with over 130 UAVs launched toward Tatarbunary, Zatoka, Odesa, Chornomorsk, Pivdenne, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, and Serhiivka, often changing direction. At least four GBUs targeted Zatoka, where the railway drawbridge across the Dniester estuary was hit. Reports indicated nearly 40 UAVs were directed at the bridge, with around 20 impacts recorded. Ten cottages at the Villa Bianca resort in Zatoka were destroyed. In Sarata more than a dozen Shahed UAVs struck a railway facility and damaged nearby property — three private houses became almost uninhabitable, several others were badly damaged, and more than 20 homes overall were affected. UAV attacks on the oblast continued until nearly midday, targeting Odesa, Serhiivka, Zatoka, and Chornomorsk. Ukrzaliznytsia had to cancel four electric train routes to Rozdilna and Podilsk. Over roughly 36 hours, Russian forces launched about 300 aerial weapons — UAVs and missiles — at Odesa Region, including two Kinzhal and at least five Iskander BMs. Due to the serious damage to energy infrastructure, the regional emergency commission declared a state-level emergency after more than 50,000 residents had been left without normal living conditions for over three days.

For reference: The bridge across the Dnister Estuary in the village of Zatoka is an important artery of the region and provides rail and transport connections with the Izmail, Bolgrad and Bilhorod-Dnister districts and leads to the Romanian border. During the full-scale invasion, this is not the first attack on the facility: for example, on 10/30/24, the Russian Armed Forces launched a total of 10 missiles: two ballistic Iskander-M/KN-23 from Crimea and eight guided aircraft missiles Kh-59/69 - from tactical aircraft over the Black Sea.

16.12.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Izmail Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: industrial and logistics infrastructure
Impact: during the night, a strike ignited a large fire at a warehouse storing household appliances such as boilers and heaters, while a nearby logistics facility was successfully rescued. Air raid alerts were issued twice due to UAV threats: first from 1:00 to 3:18 A.M., as drones moved toward Karolino-Buhaz, Vylkove, Tatarbunary, Artsyz, Sarata, Odesa, and Chornomorsk, and again from 3:27 to 7:00 A.M., initially heading for Odesa before shifting to other parts of the oblast.

16.12.2025
Region attacked: Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Izmail Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: civilian and transport infrastructure
Impact: During the day, UAVs attacked the south of Odesa Oblast, damaging civilian and transport facilities.

17.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Bolhrad Regions, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (several dozen)
Target: civilian and transport infrastructure
Impact: two waves of night attacks damaged a transport facility and started a fire that rescuers later extinguished. UAV activity was observed toward Chornomorsk, Zatoka, and Pivdenne. During the night and into the morning, Russian forces also carried out two strikes on the Artsyz community.

17.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types (several dozen), at least four GBU (two destroyed)
Target: civilian infrastructure
Impact: an evening strike on Odesa Region caused severe damage to Lyceum No. 1 in Pivdenne, shattering windows and damaging the façade. The explosion was powerful enough to tear metal doors off the shelter and deform or dislodge doors in several rooms, also damaging the courtyard. A security guard on duty was injured. Windows and facades of a nine-story residential building, nearby private houses, and ten parked cars were also affected. Four men and four women were injured. Air raid alerts in Odesa Region occurred 11 times and lasted more than nine hours overall. Thanks to air defense, two long-range GBUs missed their targets, while one reconnaissance and 21 strike UAVs were destroyed.

18.12.2025
Region attacked: Mayaky village, Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types, at least four GBU (two destroyed)
Target: critical infrastructure, bridge in Mayaky
Impact: in the afternoon, Odesa Region was attacked by CMs and UAVs, with GBUs directed towards Karolino-Buhaz and Ovidiopol. Later, Russian forces struck Mayaky with attack UAVs, damaging a key bridge to Bessarabia near a Moldovan border crossing, which led to traffic restrictions in both directions on the M-15 Odesa–Reni highway through Mayaky. A family car on the bridge was hit, killing a 43 y.o. woman and injuring her children — a 20 y.o. woman, a 16 y.o. boy, and a 4 y.o. girl — who were taken to a hospital. The strikes temporarily halted operations at the Palanca–Mayaky–Udobne and Tudora–Starokozache border crossings, and Moldovan border guards advised against travel to Ukraine. The following day, local authorities reported more than ten strikes on the bridge within a single day, with Russian forces continuing to target it in subsequent days.
For reference: the bridge over the Dniester at Mayaky is a strategic link on the M-15 Odesa–Reni route and carries most of the traffic connecting southern Odesa Region with Odesa, port infrastructure, medical facilities, humanitarian hubs, and the borders with Moldova and Romania. Ukrainian experts note that Russia is heavily attacking the bridges in Zatoka and Mayaky to cut off western Odesa Region, disrupt logistics and fuel supplies, and block access to Danube-side ports. They stress that these strikes are intended to paralyze a major transport artery for southern Odesa Region, including Izmail, Kiliia, Reni, Bolhrad, and nearby communities. Previously, Russia systematically targeted the crossing at Zatoka, the only rail connection to Budjak, southern Odesa, and onward to Romania and the EU, before shifting strikes in mid-December 2025 to the opposite side of the Dniester estuary near the river mouth.

18.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types, at least four GBU (two destroyed)
Target: civilian infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, strike UAVs hit Odesa, damaging windows and façades of residential buildings. One drone struck a balcony on the 22nd floor of a residential high-rise, while another hit a 19-story building, damaging the façade and a 15th floor apartment, shattering windows and property. Air defenses prevented two long-range GBU from reaching their targets, while one reconnaissance and 11 strike UAVs were downed.

18-19.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa and Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types (about 40 shot down)
Target: energy and rail infrastructure
Impact: shortly after 11:00 P.M., at least eight explosions were heard in Odesa as UAVs approached the city. The strikes damaged energy facilities, an administrative building, apartment blocks, cars, and garages in Odesa and the surrounding region. A section of the densely populated Peresyp District temporarily lost power, water, and heat. Across Odesa Oblast, about 74,500 households were left without electricity, including roughly 65,000 in Odesa. Rail infrastructure was also hit, with strikes near Odesa-Skhidna station damaging an electrical interlocking post and station buildings. A 58 y.o. female railway signal operator was injured and taken to a hospital.

19.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa
Weapon/carrier: four IskanderM BMs from TOT Crimea
Target: critical and port infrastructure, bridge in Mayaky, likely Pivdennyi Port
Impact: in the afternoon and evening, Russian forces carried out a series of BM strikes on critical infrastructure in Odesa Region. High-speed targets headed toward Pivdenne and Mayaky, again focusing on the bridge over the Dniester on the Odesa–Reni Road, which suffered more than ten missile strikes in a single day. One of them destroyed a truck and damaged 13 additional trucks, four cars, and a bus in a nearby parking area. After multiple days of UAV and missile attacks, traffic over the bridge was heavily restricted and the adjacent section of the Odesa–Reni Road was temporarily closed. In the evening, port infrastructure in Odesa Region, likely Pivdennyi Port, was also hit, igniting trucks and damaging vehicles. Eight civilian men aged 20–62 were killed, while 27 people injured and hospitalized, some of them on a bus that also became an attack target.

20.12.2025
Region attacked: Pivdenne, Odesa Region
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: transport, industrial and port infrastructure, Pivdennyi Port
Impact: during the day, eight air raid alerts were issued, with UAV routes recorded toward Zatoka, Mayaky, Chornomorske, and Pivdenne. Transport, port, and industrial infrastructure in southern Odesa Region were hit, causing fires and significant property damage. Around 8:00 A.M., another strike hit storage tanks at Pivdennyi Port, damaging warehouses and port facilities and triggering power disruptions. The attack also caused environmental pollution, with UAVs damaging storage tanks at an enterprise and igniting sunflower oil in 13 reservoirs. On December 24, oil-like patches were seen along Odesa’s coastline and in the sea.

22.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Pivdenne, Odesa and BilhorodDnistrovskyi regions, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types, at least three GBU
Target: critical, energy and industrial infrastructure, Pivdennyi Port
Impact: overnight, strike UAVs damaged critical, energy, and industrial facilities in Odesa and the region, including in BilhorodDnistrovskyi, with two DTEK Odesa Power Grids sites and another energy facility hit; one DTEK site suffered serious damage for the second time that year. More than 120,000 customers in Odesa Region lost power. In Pivdennyi Port, port-side infrastructure was damaged and a fire destroyed about 30 containers of flour and vegetable oil, while a warehouse storing fertilizers and farm machinery was also struck. At least three GBU were launched toward Zatoka. A substation strike and resulting fire in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi released 220 tonnes of pollutants into the air, including 216 tonnes of CO₂, and the State Environmental Inspectorate for the South-West estimated the damage at 1.2 million UAH.

22.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: port infrastructure, Port of Odesa, a civilian vessel
Impact: in the evening, strike UAVs at Port of Odesa hit a Lebanese-flagged bulk carrier carrying Ukrainian soybeans, likely the YOUSSEF BEY (IMO 9124029). The extent of the damage was not reported.

23.12.2025
Region attacked: southern Regions of Odesa Oblast, including Izmail Region
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types, at least eight GBU (seven destroyed)
Target: energy and port infrastructure, Reni Port, a civilian vessel
Impact: during the night, strike UAVs hit port and energy facilities in southern Odesa Region, with Izmail Region heavily affected. Energy, port, transport, industrial, and residential infrastructure were damaged, and Reni and the villages of Dolynske, Lymanske, and Orlivka lost power. In one area, likely Izmail Region, windows and roofs of 122 private houses and glazing of three apartment buildings were damaged, and an empty warehouse was hit. In Reni Region, the roof of a two-story house caught fire, and a garage and warehouse struck. At Reni Port, the blast wave damaged the arrested bulker ANKA (IMO 9365415, Tanzania flag, formerly Victoria), part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” reportedly used for illegal grain exports from the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea. The ship was hit what was likely a Geran-2 UAV attack, and an auction for its sale had been scheduled for December 29 2025, with a lot value of 16,358,478.15 UAH. A warehouse, administrative buildings, and port infrastructure at Reni Port were also affected. Seven long-range GBU failed to reach their targets due to air defense. Over the night attack, Romania declared air raid alerts in Tulcea and Galati counties after radar detected targets heading toward Reni and Kiliia.

25.12.2025
Region attacked: Chornomorsk, Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: port and industrial infrastructure, Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: during the night, strike UAVs hit port and industrial facilities in Odesa Region also damaging administrative buildings and a canteen. A drone struck a checkpoint building, an administrative building, and vehicles at a port terminal in Chornomorsk. A 57 y.o. man was killed, and two men injured, with a 48 y.o. taken to a hospital and a 68 y.o. treated at the scene.

26.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Odesa and Izmail Regions
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types, at least several GBU
Target: energy and port infrastructure, Port of Odesa, Port of Izmail, two civilian vessels and a barge
Impact: during the night, Russian forces carried out combined UAV and GBU strikes on civilian targets in Odesa Region. Around 12:30 A.M., at least five explosions were heard in Izmail, with further blasts at 1:31 A.M., and explosions in Odesa were reported at 1:21 A.M. The strikes damaged energy and port facilities, started fires, and damaged administrative buildings, equipment and machinery. A DTEK energy facility in southern Odesa Region was hit. In Izmail, the outpatient department of the Danube branch of Odesa Regional Clinical Hospital was damaged, with over 30 windows, interior doors and part of the roof affected. Grain elevators and warehouses of private companies were struck, and at one elevator grain conveyor equipment was damaged. A UAV also fell on the grounds of a vegetable oil plant. In one port, likely Port of Izmail, two civilian vessels were damaged, one under the Slovak flag (name not confirmed) and one under the Palau flag, likely the bulker Floki (IMO 8503096), as well as a barge, likely Slovak. At the time of the attack on Izmail, two aircraft took off from Fetesti air base in Romania to monitor the air situation near the border in northern Tulcea County, which borders Izmail Region.

27.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: civilian infrastructure
Impact: in the evening, strike UAVs hit civilian sites in Odesa. At 9:22 P.M. a drone struck the roof of a two-story house in Primorsky Region, causing a fire. More than 100 windows were damaged across seven residential buildings and three social facilities. A two-story house was damaged, and the windows and ceiling of a four-story lyceum along with a preschool were also damaged.

30.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa, Pivdenne, Odesa Region, southern Regions of Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 or other strike UAV types (25 destroyed), 1 IskanderM BM from TOT Crimea
Target: industrial and port infrastructure, Port of Chornomorsk, Pivdennyi Port, two civilian vessels
Impact: from night until midday, Odesa Region faced combined BM and UAV strikes. Around 2:30 A.M., an explosion occurred in Odesa during a BM alert. After 3:00 A.M., UAV alerts were declared in Izmail, BilhorodDnistrovskyi, Bolhrad and Odesa Regions. Industrial and port infrastructure in Odesa Region was damaged. In Port of Chornomorsk, bulk carriers Emmakris III (IMO 9218387, Panama flag) and Captain Karam (IMO 9303039, Panama flag) were hit. Captain Karam was entering the port to load wheat when struck, one crew member was injured, while Emmakris III was already in the port area at the time. Russian media claimed the ships were hit not by Geran UAVs but by less powerful Rubikon UAVs, but there has been no official confirmation. Emmakris III was arrested in summer 2022 in Chornomorsk. The nominal owner is a Hong Kong offshore company, the operator — a Dubai offshore company, but the vessel is effectively controlled by a Russian company based in Rostov-on-Don and linked to illegal grain exports from Crimea.

30.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: industrial and port infrastructure, likely Port of Chornomorsk
Impact: Russia struck Odesa Region’s port infrastructure for the second time that day, with a repeat UAV strike a few hours after the morning attack on Port of Chornomorsk. A strike caused a fire at a port enterprise and damaged empty oil storage tanks. A 48 y.o. man was injured and hospitalized.

31.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Region, Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed136 strike UAVs and other types (51 destroyed)
Target: civilian, energy and industrial facilities
Impact: during the night, a large-scale UAV strike targeted Odesa and Odesa Region. Explosions in Odesa were heard at least three times, around midnight and after 1:00 A.M. Falling debris and direct hits damaged energy, industrial and civilian sites, including two DTEK Odesa Power Grids facilities, including four apartment blocks with flats engulfed by fires and at least 14 cars and private garages affected. Parts of the city lost power, so heating and water were temporarily cut in several Regions. Six people were injured, including three children: a 58 y.o. woman, a 42 y.o. man, a 38 y.o. woman, a 14 y.o. boy, an 8 y.o. and a 7 month old baby. A strike on a Nova Poshta sorting terminal ignited a truck trailer carrying 110 parcels worth 2.3 million UAH, which were destroyed. By morning, air defense forces in southern Ukraine had shot down or suppressed 51 Shahed, Gerbera and other UAVs over Odesa Region.
For reference: In December 2025, Russian forces struck 10 DTEK substations, while over the course of 2025, attacked the total of 25 energy sites in Odesa and the oblast. Media report 39 civilians killed and 273 injured in Odesa region during the year, including 17 children.

31.12.2025
Region attacked: Odesa Oblast
Weapon/carrier: Shahed-136 strike UAVs and other types
Target: civilian and energy facilities
Impact: minutes before New Year, UAVs attacked an energy facility in Odesa Oblast, causing a fire. The strike disrupted power supply to critical facilities supporting Odesa’s essential services.

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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 have damaged 39 civilian vessels involved in the operation of the Ukraine’s grain corridor, namely:

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. 03.07.25 – bulker AJ ROSE (IMO 9217785, flagged St. Kitts and Nevis) damaged by Iskander-M BM at Port of Odesa (previously reported as unidentified vessel under São Tomé and Príncipe flag). Two crew members killed.

6. 06.07.25 – vessel Marika (likely grain carrier). Strike location, extent of damage and other information unknown.

7. 06.07.25 – dry cargo ship Zeibek (IMO 8213732, Moldova flag). Strike location, extent of damage and other information unknown.

8. 08.07.25 – bulker Amadore (IMO 8520824, Malta flag). Strike location, extent of damage and other information unknown.

9. 23.07.2025 - an explosion (likely a mine) at the Bystre mouth of the Danube River damaged the civil dredger Inhulskyi of the SE Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority, killing three crew members.

10. 08.08.25 – bulker Moayad Y (IMO 9135482, Comoros flag), deadweight nearly 24,000 tons. Strike location, extent of damage and other information unknown.

11. 20.08.2025 - chemical/product tanker Excellion (IMO 9428437, Panama flag) seriously damaged by blast wave and subsequent fire from strike UAV attack on oil terminal at Port of Izmail.

12. 28.08.25 – Ukrainian naval ship Simferopol attacked at Danube estuary pier, one sailor killed and several wounded.

13. 31.08.2025 – dry cargo ship NS Pride (IMO 8815293, Belize flag) damaged by detonation on unknown munition while exiting Port of Chornomorsk.

14. 31.08.2025 – ferry Heroyi Shypky (IMO 7605770, Ukraine flag) damaged, likely at Port of Chornomorsk. Extent of damage unknown.

15. 12.10.25 – cargo vessel Eileen (IMO 9070503) – sustained a hull breach and sank in the Black Sea, 140 nautical miles east of the Bulgarian city of Varna.

16. 18–19.10.25 – In Port of Izmail, a barge was damaged (name and other details not established).

17. 18–19.10.25 – In Port of Izmail, a pontoon vessel was damaged (name and other details not established).

18. 22.10.25 – a barge damaged at Port of Izmail. Name and extent of damage unknown.

19. 22.10.25 – a pontoon vessel damaged at Port of Izmail. Name and extent of damage unknown.

20. 17.11.25 – Tanker-gas carrier ORINDA (IMO 9240122, Turkish flag, operator BMA Denizcilik) damaged in Port of Izmail by UAV attack. Gas pumping equipment caught fire.

21. 17.11.25 – unidentified vessel damaged by UAV attack at Port of Izmail (likely Palauflagged tanker, name and details not established).

22. 17.11.25 – tanker under Ukrainian flag damaged by attack at Port of Izmail. Fire broke out and was extinguished by the crew.

23. 17.11.25 – Ukrainian-flagged tanker damaged at Port of Izmail by attack. Fire broke out, crew extinguished it themselves.

24-26. 17.11.25 – three empty barges owned by Port of Izmail and Ukrainian Sea Ports Administration damaged.

27-28. 17.11.25 – two pontoons damaged at Port of Izmail.

29. 17.11.25 – former Russian vessel under ARMA (Asset Recovery and Management Agency) arrest damaged. Name and details not established. ARMA currently manages 16 vessels, at least 9 at Port of Izmail.

30. 24.11.25 – at Port of Izmail, fire broke out on a non-operational vessel due to UAV attack, quickly extinguished by rescuers (vessel name and details unconfirmed).

31. 12.12.25 – roro cargo-passenger ferry M/V CENK T of Turkish company Cenk Shipping RoRo (IMO 7528635, Panama flag) damaged by a BM in Port of Chornomorsk.

32. 13.12.25 – Turkish civilian tanker VIVA (IMO 9156539, Tuvalu flag) attacked by Russian UAV (likely Geran2) in the Black Sea within Ukraine’s exclusive economic zone.

33. 22.12.25 – bulk carrier, likely YOUSSEF BEY (IMO 9124029, Lebanon flag), carrying Ukrainian soybeans, attacked by strike UAV in the evening, likely in Port of Odesa.

34. 23.12.25 – bulker ANKA (IMO 9365415, Tanzania flag, formerly Victoria), arrested vessel linked to Russia’s “shadow fleet” used for illegal grain exports from temporarily occupied Crimea, damaged in Port of Reni during likely Geran2 UAV attack.

35. 26.12.25 – barge (likely Slovak-flagged) damaged in combined BM and UAV strike, likely in Port of Izmail.

36. 26.12.25 – civilian vessel under Slovak flag (name and details not established) damaged in combined BM and UAV strike, likely in Port of Izmail.

37. 26.12.25 – civilian vessel under Palau flag (likely bulker Floki, IMO 8503096, Palau flag) damaged in combined BM and UAV strike, likely in Port of Izmail.

38. 30.12.25 – bulker Captain Karam (IMO 9303039, Panama flag) damaged during a combined BM and UAV strike while entering Port of Chornomorsk.

39. 30.12.25 – bulker Emmakris III (IMO 9218387, Panama flag), arrested vessel linked to illegal grain exports from temporarily occupied Crimea and located in Port of Chornomorsk, damaged in BM and UAV strike.

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.

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