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Posted on 03/04/2026 1:49:14 AM PST by Cronos
The port of Novorossiysk was struck on the night of March 2 by drones of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Defense Forces — military ships, air defense systems, and oil infrastructure were hit, sources told Ukrainska Pravda.
Source: interlocutors of Ukrainska Pravda in the Security Service of Ukraine.
Direct quote from a UP source: “The season of spring ‘bavovna’ has begun… Drones of the Special Operations Center ‘Alpha’ of the SSU, together with other components of the Defense Forces (the State Border Guard Service, Defense Intelligence, the Unmanned Systems Forces and Special Operations Forces), staged a bright ‘bavovna’ at military and oil facilities of the Novorossiysk port that are involved in the war against Ukraine.”
Details: As a UP source reported, a large-scale fire has been burning at the port since the night.
According to preliminary data, the drones struck:
– military ships,
– the 30N6E2 fire-control radar of the S-300PMU-2 Favorit system,
– the Pantsir-S2 air defense missile and gun system,
– six out of seven oil loading berths at the Sheskharis oil terminal.
The publication’s source noted that the Sheskharis terminal is one of the largest oil and petroleum transshipment terminals in southern Russia. It supplies fuel to Russian forces fighting in Ukraine.
Background:
On the night of March 2, Russian monitoring channels reported that a large-scale fire broke out at an oil terminal in the city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, following a drone attack.
Ukraine has struck a major oil terminal in the Russian city of Novorossiysk overnight on March 2, damaging infrastructure at the port, as well as military ships and air defense assets, a source in Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) told the Kyiv Independent.
The Sheskharis oil terminal in the Port of Novorossiysk was struck, according to an analysis of eyewitness footage conducted by the outlet.
The mass Ukrainian drone strike was carried out together with Ukraine's Border Guard Service, military intelligence (HUR) Unmanned Systems Forces, and Special Operations Forces.
The site is a major oil export terminal that serves as the endpoint for pipelines run by Russia's state-run Transneft, the world's largest oil pipeline company.
Six of the seven oil-filling loading arms at the Sheskharis terminal were damaged in the attack.
According to the SBU source, part of the attack included strikes on Russian military assets in and around the port, with several military ships, one Pantsir-S2 air defense system and an S-300 air defense radar also hit.
Four residential buildings were reported damaged in the attack, Novorossiysk Mayor Andrey Kravchenko said, not mentioning the oil terminal.
"At the moment, damage is known to have occurred to two more apartment buildings and five houses. Fires broke out at two addresses and are being extinguished," Kravchenko later said.
Three people were injured in the drone attack, the Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters reported.
The Kyiv Independent could not verify these claims at the time of publication.
Ukraine regularly strikes military infrastructure deep within Russia and occupied territories in an effort to diminish Moscow's fighting power as the Kremlin wages its war against Ukraine.
Ukrainian drones previously had struck the Novorossiysk oil terminal on Nov. 14 last year, sparking a large fire, the SBU told the Kyiv Independent at the time, following initial media reports and claims by local authorities.
Kyiv considers oil facilities to be valid military targets as they directly fund Russia's war.
Overnight on Feb. 27, Ukraine reportedly launched strikes, hitting a thermal power station in Belgorod Oblast and an oil depot in occupied Luhansk, according to Russian officials and eyewitness footage posted to social media.
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Reports of smoke rising from one of the Russian Navy ships in the port of Novorossiysk after the UAV attack
A Russian Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate may have been damaged or destroyed in Ukraine’s overnight drone and sea drone attack on Novorossiysk port on March 2, after satellite images showed smoke rising from one of the ships, analysts from the monitoring group Crimean Wind said.
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You know it’s time to put an end to it when you start hearing about the coming season of “bavona”, like it’s something you might find in one of their almanacs.
I am constantly struck by how hubris destroyed Putin’s position from 2021.
If he had just kept troops on the border and bullied, then
1. the west would have pressured Ukraine into giving up claims on the Donbas and Crimea while Putin incorporated them into Russia
2. Zelensky’s government would have fallen, leading to a pro-Putin successor
3. NATO would be weaker - Finland and Sweden wouldn’t join
4. Germany would be happily buying Russian gas and being a yes-man to Russia
4. Putin could have focused on keeping Assad, Khameini, Maduro in power
instead he gambled and lost - badly. In fact so badly that he got the exact opposite of what he wanted - a demoralized and wounded Russia with no allies and now a gas station for China
You could also say that things would be different today if Putin had died after a fall in the shower or if Zelensky had come down with a fatal case of pneumonia. /s
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