preCharge News POLITICS — A fire broke out at one of Russia’s Black Sea ports on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone strike, wounding at least two people, officials said. The strike comes days ahead of fresh U.S.-brokered talks aimed at ending the nearly 4-year-old war.

The strike on the port of Taman in the Krasnodar region damaged an oil storage tank, warehouse and terminals, according to regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev. Meanwhile, falling debris from Russian drones damaged civilian and transport infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region, officials said, disrupting the power and water supply.

Kondratyev said that more than 100 people were working to put out several fires at the port, according to Reuters. He added that strikes hit the resort city of Sochi and the village of Yurovka, causing less significant damage.

The attacks came just days ahead of another round of U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva. There have already been two rounds of talks under this trilateral format so far this year, held in Abu Dhabi, but this week’s session will be the first on European soil, and it comes just days before the fourth anniversary of the all-out Russian invasion of its neighbor on Feb. 22.

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Associated Press, CNBC News, Fox News, and preCharge News contributed to this report.