Ukrainian Navy confirms Russian military's complete withdrawal from Crimean repair facilities to Russia's Novorossiysk due to Ukrainian missile threat.
The Russian Navy does not plan to return to Crimea since Ukrainian strikes on the fleet and other assets in the occupied peninsula have made harboring there dangerous, according to Ukrainian Naval spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk.
Overnight, a massive drone attack targeted oil facilities in Tuapse and Novorossiysk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, hundreads of kilometers behind the frontline.
To avoid Ukrainian sea-borne attack, Russia largely moved its Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk, where it is improving infrastructure to support long-term basing, per UK intelligence.
Ukraine's Security Service conducted a special operation in Novorossiysk Bay, where a maritime drone damaged a large Russian landing warship last night.