Russian Black Sea port facilities attacked, Ukrainian military confirms conducting firepower attack.

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03/11/2025
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on November 2nd local time that on the night of the 1st, Ukrainian troops carried out a firepower attack on the Tuapse refinery belonging to a Russian oil company in the Krasnodar border area of Russia and its related marine oil loading and unloading infrastructure. The report states that preliminary information indicates that the oil loading and unloading facilities at the Russian commercial seaport on the Tuapse Bay on the Black Sea coast were damaged. According to the local emergency department in the Krasnodar border area of Russia, on the early morning of November 2nd, the Black Sea port facilities in the important oil hub city of Tuapse were damaged and set on fire in a Ukrainian drone attack. Tuapse Port is home to the oil terminal station and the Tuapse refinery owned by the Russian oil company - both of these key energy facilities have been targeted by Ukrainian drones multiple times this year.