Novorossiysk

And escalations in Russia just keep coming.

Novorossiysk, Novorossiysk, CPC, still vulnerable to attack.

And CPC has been pricing well into several key regions.

So if that comes into threat, that could be quite a headwind for global crude pricing, essentially.

The Institute for the Study of War cites one milblogger as arguing that beautiful reports, that's a term milbloggers have coined to refer to the pervasive culture of misinformation about the state of the front lines, needs to be absolutely forbidden.

Now more details have emerged about the strikes overnight Tuesday, Wednesday onto Novorossiysk Naval base and the surrounding area on Russia's Black Sea coast.

The Ukrainian Navy say they used a Neptune cruise missile to hit the Kalibr cruise missile-equipped Admiral Essen frigate.

Russian officials acknowledged the attacks but didn't provide any battle damage assessment.

Yeah.

Yeah, these are the attacks at, uh, uh, Novorossiysk and, uh, Perovsky, and these are, as you say, a couple of thousand miles away from Ukraine.

But the thing that's important about this, Kate, is that these were not created apparently by missiles.

These were special forces.

The Russians started this war.

It's their war of aggression, et cetera, et cetera.

But the fact is, I mean, hitting, uh, Novorossiysk with sabotage actually takes the war to a, a, a different level.

level.So the question remains, Mike, are Ukrainian attacks in Russia making any meaningful impact in the war, or are they just, to use that word again, hurting Russia?

Okay, so the Makhachkala seaport was hit.

"Damage to three enemy warships in Novorossiysk confirmed.

The Makhachkala commercial seaport is the only ice-free deepwater port of the Russian Federation in the Caspian Sea, an important transfer, transport and logistics hub." Uh, again, we's talked about that same kind of thing, that the route is used for military-related deliveries in both directions, from Iran to the Russian Federation, components and Shahed-type attack UAVs, and from the Russian Federation to Iran.

Remember, Russia's supporting Iran, and the US is at war with Iran, and yeah.

"Explosives, components for unmanned systems, and ammunition.

A Russian Caspian Flotilla base is located near the port.

In addition, following the analysis of additional data, strikes on the 9th and Sep- of September 2026 were confirmed to have hit fuel oil storage facilities in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russian Federation, as well as at least three enemy warships, uh, Zelenyy Dol- Yakov-class small minesweeper, the Admiral Essen frigate, and Project 11711 Pyotr Morgunov large landing ship." So, a, a lot of things were hit.

We just didn't know what they were yesterday, but now we do know what they are.

In the last few days, they hit Sochi, they hit Muscochkala in Dagestan, paralyzing the only deep-water port Russia has on the Caspian Sea.

They hit the Novorossiysk fuel terminals.

But that isn't the punchline.

The punchline is Novy Urengoy.

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The state is giving mailmen useless and powered plastic toys, which barely work, to point to the sky, while tonight the port of Novorossiysk, the largest commercial port in Russia, is literally burning to the ground.

A massive Ukrainian combined strike just hit their fuel terminal.

In the Caucasus, Anapa fell to Romanian cavalry on the thirty-first, isolating the Taman Peninsula entirely and forcing the Soviet Navy to abandon the area.

The Romanians now turned their attention towards Novorossiysk while simultaneously screening the peninsula against Soviet counteraction.

The fall of Anapa cleared the way for Operation Blucher Two to begin on September the second.

Hitler temporarily diverted a portion of his aircraft away from Stalingrad to support the crossing operation while keeping the Black Sea Fleet at bay.

Poor weather over the following days interrupted the transport of further formations, but the Forty-sixth Infantry and the Romanian Third Mountain divisions still managed to rapidly overrun the northern portions of the Taman Peninsula, a task considered largely complete by the fifth.

The majority of the roughly 5,000 Soviet naval infantry defending the peninsula was successfully evacuated.

They would be redirected to Novorossiysk.

The loss of Anapa and Taman made the Soviet position around Novorossiysk acutely critical.

We have seen Ukrainian drone attacks in huge numbers getting very close to Moscow, causing damage in Russian cities, targeting oil refineries, military infrastructure.

Just the other day, Vladimir Zelensky said it's forced that it struck targets in Russia's major Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

and targets included naval facilities, warships, and oil and logistics sites.

So the Ukrainians are trying to increase the economic and military cost to Moscow of continuing the war.