The Caspian Pipeline Consortium counted a third strike against what it calls a protected civilian facility when drone boats damaged its Black Sea terminal, forcing the company to declare the berth unusable and evacuate vessels from the area
Observers tracking open-source footage linked some of the strikes to a military unit housing S-300 or S-400 systems. NASA FIRMS confirmed fires across Novorossiysk.
Ukrainian forces struck at the heart of Russia's oil export machine, hitting terminals in Novorossiysk and Tuapse that load tankers circumventing international sanctions
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.