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Rescue workers put out a fire after a Russian strike on a harbour in Odesa region, Ukraine on December 23, 2025. © Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP

An overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa wounded at least four people, three of them children, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. The city’s energy, transport and port infrastructure, as well as residential buildings, have been frequent targets of Russian strikes since the early days of the war. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.

Russia’s top general says Putin ordered ‘buffer zone’ expansion in northeast Ukraine for 2026

Russia’s ​top general said its forces were pressing forward in northeastern ⁠Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin had ordered expansion of territory Moscow calls a buffer zone there in 2026, Russian news agencies.

Chief of the General Staff Valery ‍Gerasimov said Putin ordered expansion in 2026 of the buffer zone in Ukraine’s regions ​of Sumy and Kharkiv near the Russian border, ​RIA said, adding that he inspected the “North” troop grouping.

The grouping, formed in early 2024, has operated in northeastern Ukraine, seeking to create a buffer along the border and trying to push back Ukrainian forces there for further advances.

Putin has repeatedly portrayed the buffer zone ‍as a way to push Ukrainian forces and weapons farther from Russia’s border, citing cross-border shelling and drone attacks on regions such as Belgorod and Kursk.

Kyiv has rejected Moscow’s buffer zone calling it an idea Russia is using to justify deeper incursions into ‍Ukrainian territory.

At least four wounded, including three children in Russian attack on Odesa, Ukraine says

Russia launched an ⁠overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s Odesa region, damaging residential buildings and infrastructure and wounding four people, including three children, regional ​authorities said.

Odesa, a major ‍Black Sea port, has been repeatedly targeted by Russian missiles and ​drones during nearly four years of war, with strikes ​frequently hitting energy, transport and port infrastructure as well as residential areas.

“Strike drones attacked residential, logistics and energy infrastructure in our region,” Oleh Kiper, governor of the Odesa region, said on the Telegram messaging app.

In Odesa city, which ‍is the administrative centre of the broader Odesa region, four people ​were injured, including a seven-month-old infant, two other children, and a 42-year-old man, Serhiy Lisak, the head of ‌Odesa’s military administration, said on Telegram.

He said that drone debris and direct hits damaged ‍facades and windows of several high-rise apartment buildings.

Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at Tuapse refinery, Russia says

A Ukrainian drone attack wounded two people and sparked a fire that ⁠was quickly extinguished at the Tuapse oil refinery, the operational headquarters of Russia’s Krasnodar region said.

The strike damaged refinery equipment, one port berth ​and five homes – windows were broken in four apartment blocks and ‍a private house – the Krasnodar operational headquarters said on the Telegram messaging app.

Tuapse in the Krasnodar region ​lies in southwest Russia on the Black Sea and about 350km to the nearest parts of Ukraine’s mainland across the Sea of Azov.

The refinery blaze was put out after burning about 300 square metres, it said, but the authorities did not provide details on the extent of the damage to the oil refinery’s equipment or whether operations were halted.

Tuapse is one of Russia’s ‍key Black Sea outlets for oil products, anchored by Rosneft’s export-oriented Tuapse refinery, which has capacity to ​process about 240,000 barrels of crude oil per day and supplies products such as naphtha, fuel oil and diesel.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)

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