Ukrainian drone strike hits Russian Novorossiysk oil hub, damaging ship and depot

Russia’s oil infrastructure has faced repeated disruptions this year due to drone and unmanned boat attacks. Baltic and Black Sea ports, a trunk pipeline system and a number of oil refineries have been targeted.

According to industry sources, crude oil shipments via Novorossiysk reached 3.22 million tonnes, or 761,000 barrels a day, in October. For the first 10 months of the year, the figure was 24.716 million tonnes.