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Ukrainian forces launched 200+ drones and Long Neptune cruise missiles at Novorossiysk, striking an oil transshipment terminal, air defense unit 52522, S-400 battery components, ammo dump, and potentially a civilian tanker.

Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai
Verified Independently confirmed by 3 sources
Stefan Korshak (Substack) Kyiv Independent Institute for the Study of War

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Entities

Long Neptune (weapon_system) SBU (organization) ZSU (military_unit) SSU (military_unit) Novorossiysk (location) S-300 (weapon_system) unit 52522 (military_unit) unit 1537 (military_unit) Sheskharis (organization) S-400 Triumph (weapon_system) 96N6 Cheese Board radar (weapon_system) 92N6 Grave Stone radar (weapon_system) Kuban Red Banner Regiment military base (location) Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) (organization) Ukraine (organization) Novorossiysk oil depot (location) Novorossiysk container terminal (location) Security Service (SBU) (organization) S-400 (weapon_system) Sheskharis oil complex (location) Transneft (organization) Russian Ministry of Defense (organization) Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Sheskharis oil terminal (location) S-400 missile system (weapon_system)

Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian forces launched 200+ drones and Long Neptune cruise missiles at Novorossiysk, striking an oil transshipment terminal, air defense unit 52522, S-400 battery components, ammo dump, and potentially a civilian tanker.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Four S-400 launchers and two radars were destroyed in the drone strike on Novorossiysk

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

The base housed around 12 S-400 launchers and several additional launchers may have been damaged

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian forces struck Russian ship base in Novorossiysk and damaged oil terminal and S-400 system

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:56:26.175Z

Source story: day-1359b-2025-11-17