The Russian port Novorossiysk in the Black Sea late on Friday night (14.11.2025) Greek time the Ukraine with cruise missiles and drones. The result was to temporarily halt oil exports, which account for 2.2 million barrels per day or 2% of global supplies, according to industry sources.
The attack launched by Ukraine against its Russian port Novorossiysk it was one of the largest recorded in recent months in Russian oil export infrastructure.
It comes after increasing Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries since August, as part of an effort by Kiev to limit Moscow’s ability to finance its war.
Russian Oil Terminal Port Novorossiysk just got annihilated by Ukraine!!! pic.twitter.com/3VOxyjJxOr
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Global oil prices rose more than 2% amid supply fears after the attack.
Ukraine unleashed a wave of drone strikes overnight, targeting key Russian infrastructure. In Novorossiysk, multiple explosions hit the Sheskharis oil terminal and nearby coastal facilities, sparking major fires. S-300/400 air defense positions were also struck.
And Saratov, but… pic.twitter.com/VXYy78YJ5s
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The Ukrainian attacks with long-range air and sea drones have repeatedly disrupted Russian oil infrastructure this year, targeting Baltic and Black Sea ports, a pipeline system and a number of oil refineries.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian army announced that his forces launched Neptune cruise missiles and used various types of unmanned strike aircraft in the attack on Novorossiysk “in the context of efforts to reduce the military and economic potential of the Russian aggressor”.
Ukraine said it separately hit an oil refinery in Russia’s Saratov region and a fuel storage facility in the nearby town of Engels overnight.
The Russian Oil Pipeline Company Transneft was also forced to suspend supplies to the port of Novorossiysk, the sources told Reuters. The company declined to comment on the matter.
Debris from the Ukrainian drones fell on the Russian NKHP grain terminal
OR Caspian Litigation Consortiumwhich exports oil from Kazakhstan through the neighboring terminal Yuznaya Ozereevkasuspended oil shipments for a few hours and then resumed them when the air traffic alert was lifted, sources said.
It plans to export 1.45 million barrels a day this month from the Yuzhnaya Ozereevka terminal, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of Novorossiysk.
Debris from the drones fell on the ground of Russia’s NKHP grain terminal, which was operating normally, the Interfax news agency reported, citing the general manager Yuri Medvedev.
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Novorossiysk, Russia. pic.twitter.com/Jo9GoFOkmG
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Russian officials said today’s attack also damaged a docked ship, apartment buildings and an oil depot in Novorossiyskinjuring three of the ship’s crew.
Delo, a transport and logistics group, said debris from drones fell at a container terminal in Novorossiysk but that its operations continued as normal.
British shipping safety company Ambrey said a crane was damaged, as were several containers. It said a container ship next to the terminal suffered collateral damage, while no crew members were injured as they had taken refuge in a safe assembly point inside the ship.
“Novorossiysk suffered the biggest blow”
Russian crude oil shipments through the terminal Ceskaris of Novorossiysk they totaled 3.22 million tonnes, or 761,000 barrels per day, in October, sources said. For the first 10 months of the year, this figure was 24,716 million tonnes.
The sources told Reuters that a total of 1.794 million tonnes of petroleum products were exported through it Novorossiysk in October and the exports of petroleum products in the period January – October amounted to 16,783 tons.
According to three industry sources, the Ukrainian attack hit two oil piers in the Ceskaris. The damage was caused to Pier 1 and Pier 1A, which handle tankers with a displacement capacity of 40,000 tonnes and 140,000 tonnes respectively.
An intense video of the attack on the Novorossiysk filmed by one of the crew members of a foreign vessel that was in the port during the air raid. https://t.co/e0RlplA8ZE pic.twitter.com/E5w5g3MxoX
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Two of the sources said the tanker “Arlan» flagged Sierra Leone was also damaged during the attack.
«Novorossiysk suffered the biggest blow“, he said on social media Benjamin Kondratievgovernor of the region Krasnodarwhere the Novorossiysk.
“Overnight, more than 170 people and 50 units of deployed equipment dealt with the aftermath of the attack, quickly extinguishing the fires and providing assistance to residents,” he said.
Three crew members of the wrecked vessel are being treated in hospital, Kondratiev said.
The announcement by the Ukrainian side said that damage was also caused to a Russian air defense system S-400 and at a missile storage facility, causing an explosion and fire.