An overnight drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk killed a child, injured two people and damaged residential buildings and key port infrastructure, Russian officials and companies said on Wednesday.
Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said four enterprises and more than two dozen residential buildings were damaged. Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said another person was killed elsewhere in the region and several others were injured.
Russia’s Demetra Holding said the Novorossiysk grain terminal was also damaged in the attack. The NKHP plant said it had halted operations, three industry sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
Russia's Defence Ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 502 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight. It also said Russian forces struck a fuel depot in the Ukrainian port of Odesa used to supply Ukraine's military. Reuters could not independently verify the claims.
The attack came as the Financial Times reported that Ukraine had paused drone strikes on oil tankers using Novorossiysk following a request from U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
According to the report, Washington was concerned that the attacks were destabilising oil markets and affecting U.S. companies involved in Kazakhstan's energy sector.
Ukraine reportedly agreed not to target Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) infrastructure or non-Russian vessels unless they were under Ukrainian sanctions or carrying Russian oil or cargo. Reuters said it could not independently verify the report.
Novorossiysk is a major export hub for Russian commodities and Kazakh oil. Black Sea drone attacks disrupted as much as a fifth of CPC oil loadings in July, according to sources cited by Reuters.
Kazakhstan, which relies heavily on the CPC route to export its crude through Russia, saw oil production fall 14 per cent in July from June. U.S. energy companies Chevron and Exxon Mobil are among the major Western firms operating in Kazakhstan.
The latest attack comes as Ukrainian forces step up strikes on Russian energy and logistics infrastructure in an effort Kyiv says is aimed at reducing Moscow's resources to finance its war.
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