Ukraine Reported Hitting Warships and an Oil-Shipping Terminal in a Port Where the Local Authority Claimed only Falling Drone Debris
Zelenskyy said the operation hit military harbor assets and oil-shipping facilities, including warships carrying Kalibr missiles.
- On September 9, 2026, Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Russian naval base and fuel-oil terminal in Novorossiysk, targeting military harbor assets, warships, and Kalibr missile carriers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported.
- Russia's fleet sheltered in the port after Ukrainian strikes pushed it out of occupied Crimea, positioning the base more than 300 km from the front line as a strategic refuge for naval assets.
- GEOINT analysis by Militarnyi and NASA FIRMS satellite imagery pinpointed strike damage to the Novorossiysk Fuel Oil Terminal, though Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko initially claimed the impact resulted from "falling debris."
- Disruption to the facility, which possesses an annual throughput capacity of about 4 million tons, has pushed oil supplies from Russia's western ports 15% below plan, affecting the Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port's operations.
- Zelenskyy stated that "over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian forces achieved concrete" results, emphasizing Ukraine's expanding deep-tier strike program as a means to target Russian military logistics and export infrastructure.
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Ukraine reported hitting warships and an oil-shipping terminal in a port where the local authority claimed only falling drone debris
Orbital heat detection and eyewitness cameras placed more than one blaze across Novorossiysk overnight, in a port that carries a large share of Russia's seaborne export trade.
The terminal is used for oil shipments, military port facilities, warships, and missile carriers.
Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Warships and Kalibr Carriers at Black Sea Port
Ukrainian defense forces struck Russia’s naval base and oil shipping facilities in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, targeting military harbor assets, warships, and Kalibr missile carriers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on September 9.
The Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) launched a combined strike on Russia's Novorossiysk naval base on the night of today, destroying several warships, including missile carriers, USF commander Robert Brovdi, whose call sign is "Magyar", confirmed on his social media page.
The commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert “Magyar” Broddi, confirmed an attack on the Russian naval base in Novorossiysk on the night of September 9, Ukrainskaya Pravda reported, quoted by News.bg. “On the night of September 9, as a result of a combined strike by the Ukrainian Defense and Security Forces with the participation of the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Novorossiysk naval base lost a number of w…
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