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Novorossiysk Oil Teminal (Shekaris) offline. It shipped 25% of Russia’s seaborne crude.

There were multiple mushroom clouds during the recent drone swarm. Looks like weapons with larger payloads are being used.

Marine Link (15 Nov):

“Russia’s Black Sea port of Novorossiysk temporarily suspended oil exports, equivalent to 2.2 million barrels per day, or 2% of global supply, on Friday, according to industry sources, after what local authorities said was a Ukrainian drone attack.

The attack, one of the biggest on Russian oil-exporting infrastructure in recent months…

…Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Kyiv had also fired long-range “Long Neptune” cruise missiles at targets in Russia overnight, adding that such strikes were getting more successful all the time. He mentioned no targets.

Russian pipeline oil monopoly Transneft has also been forced to suspend supplies to the port of Novorossiysk…

…Russian officials said Friday’s attack had also damaged a docked ship, apartment buildings and an oil depot in Novorossiysk, injuring three of the vessel’s crew members...

…Russian crude oil shipments via Novorossiysk’s Sheskharis terminal totalled 3.22 million tonnes, or 761,000 barrels a day, in October, according to industry sources. For the first 10 months of the year, the figure was 24.716 million tonnes.

The sources told Reuters that a total of 1.794 million tonnes of oil products had been exported through Novorossiysk in October and oil product exports for January-October totalled 16.783 million tonnes.

According to three industry sources, the Ukrainian attack hit two oil berths at Sheskharis. The damage was inflicted to berth 1 and berth 1A, which handle 40,000-deadweight-ton and 140,000-deadweight-ton tankers respectively.

Two of the sources said the Sierra Leone-flagged Arlan oil tanker was also hit during the attack.

“Novorossiysk suffered the most,” Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of the Krasnodar region, where Novorossiysk is located…

…Three injured crew members of the damaged boat were being treated in hospital, Kondratyev said.

Local officials later said that a fire at an oil depot at the Sheskharis terminal, which handles crude oil and oil product exports, had been extinguished.

Coastal structures had also been damaged, they said, without providing details.”

NATO now outproduces Russia for Artillery shells. North Korea has cut deep into their reserves, and are getting down to shooting their wad:

North Korea halves shell shipments to Russia as its own stockpiles run low

Kyiv Post (15 Nov):

“Pyongyang has cut its artillery shell shipments to Russia by more than half in 2025 due to dwindling stockpiles, Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR), told Reuters on Nov. 14.

North Korean artillery ammunition enabled Russia to maintain its firing rate in 2024, but this year, that support has declined markedly, with both the quantity and quality of munitions delivered to the Kremlin significantly reduced.

In 2023, North Korea supplied Russia with about 6.5 million artillery shells from its stockpiles, taking the opportunity to strengthen ties with Moscow following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Skibitskyi told Reuters.

Yet no shipments were recorded in September, though some were tracked in October, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence.

Skibitskyi added that roughly half of the shells arriving from Pyongyang were so poorly maintained that they had to be sent to Russian factories for refurbishing.”