Ukraine's Safety Service and the Armed Forces carried out a profitable assault on the seaport in Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging a number of Russian naval vessels, on the evening of 1-2 March.

Supply: Ukrainska Pravda supply

Particulars: Ukrainian defence forces struck the trawler Valentin Pikul. The anti-submarine ships Yeysk and Kasimov additionally sustained severe injury.

Russian forces additionally suffered personnel losses: three Russian sailors have been killed and 14 have been injured.

It was beforehand reported that the assault had additionally hit the 30N6E2 steering radar from an S-300PMU-2 Favorit air defence system, a Pantsir-S2 air defence system and 6 of the seven oil loading arms on the Sheskharis oil terminal. The hearth within the port burned all through the evening.

Background: On the evening of 1-2 March, drones operated by the Particular Operations Centre Alpha of the Safety Service of Ukraine along with different parts of Ukraine's defence forces – the State Border Guard Service, Defence Intelligence, Unmanned Techniques Forces and the Particular Operations Forces – carried out a large-scale strike on army and oil amenities on the Novorossiysk port utilized in Russia's warfare towards Ukraine.

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