Ukraine drone attack disrupts grain terminals in Russia’s Novorossiysk
A Ukrainian overnight drone attack damaged enterprises and homes in Novorossiysk, while Russian industry sources said two major grain terminals were taken offline.
Novorossiysk, Russia. A large-scale overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Novorossiysk put two major grain terminals out of operation, according to Russian industry sources, while Kyiv said it had targeted a naval base in the Black Sea port city.
Russian officials said at least two people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed, and multiple enterprises and residential buildings were damaged.
Grain and naval infrastructure
Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, with much of its grain shipped through Black Sea ports including Novorossiysk. Russia’s main grain lobby group warned last month that Ukrainian attacks could halt Black Sea grain exports in the near future, raising prices and contributing to hunger in Africa and the Middle East.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram that Ukrainian drones, missiles and unmanned boats had struck Russia’s naval base in Novorossiysk. Russia relocated some Black Sea Fleet vessels to the city after repeated Ukrainian attacks in Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Damage and casualties
Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said a “massive” wave of Ukrainian attacks targeted the area. Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said four unspecified enterprises and more than two dozen residential buildings were damaged.
Unverified social media footage showed flames and smoke rising from an unidentified location in Novorossiysk.
Oil infrastructure
Novorossiysk also contains oil export infrastructure, including facilities used by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which is partly owned by U.S. oil companies Chevron and Exxon Mobil and transports Kazakh oil for export.
The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that Ukraine had stopped attacks on tankers serving the consortium following a request from U.S. Vice President JD Vance. There was no indication that the pipeline consortium or tankers collecting oil from it were hit in the overnight attack.
Other attacks
In Sevastopol, Crimea, more than three dozen drones were downed, according to the city’s Russian-installed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev.
Separately, a Russian attack caused a fire at a shopping mall in Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram, posting photographs of the building on fire.
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