One killed in Ukrainian drone strike in southern Russia

Ukraine struck Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery for the second time in less than a week, according to Robert Brovdi, commander of Kyiv’s drone forces, who announced the attack in a social media post.

Russian officials said a Ukrainian drone assault on the Black Sea port city of Tuapse triggered a fire and killed at least one person, coming only hours after authorities had put out a blaze caused by a similar strike on 16 April.

Rosneft’s Tuapse refinery, which is geared toward exports, can process about 240,000 barrels of crude a day and produces fuels including naphtha, fuel oil and diesel.

The strike marked the second attack on the port in a matter of days. Regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev said falling drone debris shattered windows in buildings across the city, including apartment blocks, a primary school, a kindergarten, a museum and a church.

He added that another man was wounded in the attack and was given medical treatment.

In an earlier statement, the governor said a 14-year-old girl and a young woman were killed in a nighttime drone strike on the same city on Thursday.

Russia’s defence ministry also said its air defences had “destroyed 112 Ukrainian drones” overnight.

Russia arrests German woman in alleged bomb plot

Russia said it had detained a German woman who was allegedly carrying a homemade bomb in her backpack, in what authorities described as a Ukrainian-backed plot to blow up a security services building in southern Russia.

In a statement carried by state media, the FSB security agency said the woman, born in 1969, had been drawn into the alleged plan by a citizen of a Central Asian country who, it said, was acting on orders from Ukraine.

She was arrested in the Caucasus city of Pyatigorsk, where the FSB said officers found an improvised explosive device in her bag.