Oil-loading facilities at the port of Novorossiysk came under drone attack overnight on November 14. Authorities declared a state of emergency in the city.
The Krasnodar Region’s operational headquarters said in the morning that an oil depot at the Sheskharis transshipment complex was damaged and that debris from drones fell onto multi-apartment residential buildings. Officials added that debris also damaged a civilian vessel in the port, injuring three crew members.
Sheskharis is the end point of Transneft’s pipelines and is used to receive, store, and load oil and petroleum products for export, as well as to supply oil to refineries in the Krasnodar region.
Later, local authorities declared a state of emergency in the city. Mayor Andrey Kravchenko said one person was known to be injured.
Telegram channels also published footage of the strikes filmed by eyewitnesses. One video appears to show a hit on surface-to-air missiles of an S-300/S-400 system belonging to the 1537th air-defense missile regiment, according to the OSINT project KiberBoroshno.
Data from NASA’s FIRMS fire-tracking service indicate a blaze at the presumed site of the strike on the S-300/S-400 positions. Satellites show three large fire hotspots in the port area where the oil terminals are located.
Reuters, citing two sources, reports that following the overnight attack, Transneft suspended oil delivery to the port of Novorossiysk. The company declined to comment.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that overnight on November 14 Ukrainian forces struck Russia with “Long Neptune” missiles.
He said the attack targeted “specific targets on Russian territory,” calling it “a just response to ongoing Russian terror.”
Zelensky did not specify which sites were targeted.
The Long Neptune missiles, with a range of about 1,000 kilometers, can also be used against land targets.
