Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces struck two cargo vessels overnight in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday.
Ukraine's economy minister says Russian airstrikes have destroyed close to $10 billion worth of infrastructure and fixed assets this year.
About $40 billion in export revenue is now at risk because of Russia's blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports.
Combined, the destruction and blockade are expected to shave roughly 1.5 per cent off GDP this year.
Officials are warning of a difficult winter ahead as fiscal space grows increasingly tight.
In remarks to the Izvestia newspaper, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there is an understanding that resuming trade and economic cooperation with the U.S. would yield “significant benefits” for both countries.
“At the corporate level, at least, we see a great deal of interest. However, in practical terms, there are currently no cooperation mechanisms in place, nor have any joint projects been implemented,” Peskov said.
Russian air strikes on ten Ukrainian regions killed three people, injured dozens and damaged residential buildings and infrastructure across the country, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Two people were killed in the city of Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine and one in Zelenskyy's native city of Kryvyi Rih, the president said on the Telegram app. People were injured in the Odesa region, Kryvyi Rih and Kyiv, he said.
The situation in the Bab el-Mandeb strait is developing in an uncontrolled manner, prompting concern in Moscow, Interfax reported on Saturday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Friday, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, moving to tighten their grip on a vital global shipping route in the widening Middle East war.
Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom plans to increase the number of its specialists at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran to 150 in the near future, Interfax news agency reported.
Rosatom, which is building two new units at Bushehr, evacuated hundreds of staff after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran on 28 February.
More than 30 people have been injured after overnight Russian strikes hit Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa, according to local authorities. A residential building was heavily damaged, while several nearby buildings and gas infrastructure were also affected.
Ukraine’s Air Force said it intercepted dozens of Russian drones and missiles during the attack. Russia claimed its strikes targeted port facilities in Chornomorsk used for military supply operations. Both sides continue to accuse each other of targeting strategic infrastructure, while denying attacks on civilians.
Industrial facilities in Russia's Samara region were attacked by Ukrainian drones on Saturday morning, Interfax reported, citing regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev.
Russia's Defence Ministry said its forces had downed 230 Ukrainian drones overnight over more than a dozen Russian regions, as well as over Crimea and the Azov and Black seas.
Fedorishchev did not specify which facilities were targeted or whether they had been damaged.
Ilya Sukhikh, mayor of the city of Togliatti in Samara region, said several residential buildings were damaged and one person was injured.
In a separate attack, four commercial properties were set ablaze in the city of Taganrog in the Rostov region, local mayor Svetlana Kambulova said, according to TASS.
The ministry also said Russian forces hit Ukrainian steel maker Zaporizhstal in the city of Zaporizhzhia, an Interpipe Steel complex in Dnipro and several plants in Kryvyi Rih, including the Northern Iron Ore Beneficiation Works complex.
The report has not been independently verified.
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