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Ukrainian Magura sea drones attacked two Russian shadow tankers near Novorossiysk, damaging their sterns and engine rooms.

Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai
Verified Independently confirmed by 4 sources
Stefan Korshak (Substack) Institute for the Study of War Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post

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Magura (weapon_system) Ukrainian Naval Forces (military_unit) Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV) (weapon_system) Russian Shadow Fleet (organization) Novorossiysk Port (location) Ukrainian Armed Forces (military_unit) Volodymyr Zelenskyy (person) Ukrainian forces (military_unit) Andrii Hnatov (person) Security Service of Ukraine (organization) Ukrainian Navy (military_unit) Armed Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) Shadow Fleet tankers (weapon_system) Ukraine (organization) Russia (organization)

Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: certain

Magura kamikaze boats hit two shadow tankers outside Novorossiysk, with one reaching Turkey under its own power.

Institute for the Study of War → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian forces attacked Russian oil tankers near Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai using USVs.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Ukraine hit two Russian shadow fleet vessels near Novorossiysk port.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Ukraine strikes two Russian Shadow Fleet tankers near Novorossiysk.

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Extraction metadata

Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.935Z

Source story: day-1536b-2026-05-11