Overview
- Open-source investigators at Astra identified the Sheskharis oil terminal in Novorossiysk as the apparent target, with fires reported at the Black Sea port.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses destroyed 172 Ukrainian drones overnight across the Black Sea, Krasnodar and Crimea, and local officials declared a state of emergency in Novorossiysk.
- Regional authorities in Novorossiysk reported at least five people injured and damage to 17 residential buildings and a daycare center.
- Ukraine’s General Staff and security services said they struck military vessels, air-defense radars and six of seven oil-loading piers at Sheskharis, and reported additional hits on Russian radar sites in Crimea and Luhansk.
- Russian drone barrages against Ukraine continued as Kyiv reported downing 127 of 136 drones overnight, with confirmed civilian impacts including a deadly strike on a commuter train in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.