KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports.

Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage on civilian areas of Ukraine and is stepping up ground attacks along the front.

Ukraine’s military said it carried out overnight strikes against a Russian missile-carrying warship docked at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and a drilling rig near occupied Crimea, citing a statement from a Ukrainian drone commander.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia launched nearly 1,000 drones and missiles at Ukraine, starting overnight and continuing for several hours Tuesday in a large-scale daylight attack -- in a barrage that saw the ...

Regional Governor Yury Slyusar claimed that Russian air defenses destroyed more than 50 drones across ten districts in the oblast. However, he did not mention the fire in Gukovo, only reporting damage to a family home in the Chertkovsky district from debris of an intercepted drone.

Russia's anticipated annual spring offensive appears to have started, with a major drone assault on civilian areas coinciding with multiple attempts to break through frontline Ukrainian defences.

Ukraine's SBU struck the Admiral Grigorovich frigate in Novorossiysk with drones, a vessel capable of launching Kalibr cruise missiles.