In a historic combined strike, Ukraine unleashed 15 domestically developed weapon systems—including Palianytsia jet drones, Long Neptune missiles, and Mamai USVs—against Russia’s crucial Novorossiysk port. Over 400 drones and missiles damaged key Black Sea Fleet warships, ignited the Sheskharis oil terminal, and shut down major grain export hubs over 300 kilometers behind the front line. Discover how Kyiv dismantled the Kremlin’s last safe naval refuge.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ukrainian Long-Range Blitz Strikes Novorossiysk Port
01:15 - Black Sea Fleet Frigates Admiral Essen and Makarov Damaged
02:30 - Satellite Imagery Confirms Sheskharis Oil Terminal Blaze
03:45 - Palianytsia Jet Drone Leads 400 Drone Coordinated Strike
05:00 - Long Neptune Cruise Missiles and Mamai USV Maritime Drones
06:15 - Ukrainian Drones Trigger Blackouts Across Occupied Sevastopol
07:30 - Why Novorossiysk Lacks Dry Docks and Repair Infrastructure
08:45 - Novorossiysk Serves as Primary Hub for Russian Shadow Fleet
10:00 - Sheskharis Terminal Strike Burns 75 Million Ton Oil Capacity
11:15 - Drone Strike Shuts Down 15.6 Million Ton Grain Terminals
12:30 - Will Novorossiysk Become Useless to the Russian Military?
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ukrainian Long-Range Blitz Strikes Novorossiysk Port
01:15 - Black Sea Fleet Frigates Admiral Essen and Makarov Damaged
02:30 - Satellite Imagery Confirms Sheskharis Oil Terminal Blaze
03:45 - Palianytsia Jet Drone Leads 400 Drone Coordinated Strike
05:00 - Long Neptune Cruise Missiles and Mamai USV Maritime Drones
06:15 - Ukrainian Drones Trigger Blackouts Across Occupied Sevastopol
07:30 - Why Novorossiysk Lacks Dry Docks and Repair Infrastructure
08:45 - Novorossiysk Serves as Primary Hub for Russian Shadow Fleet
10:00 - Sheskharis Terminal Strike Burns 75 Million Ton Oil Capacity
11:15 - Drone Strike Shuts Down 15.6 Million Ton Grain Terminals
12:30 - Will Novorossiysk Become Useless to the Russian Military?
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00:01The Novorossiysk naval port in Krasnodar Krai is everything to Russia right now.
00:07The one port from which it can send oil and grain out via the Black Sea in the Sea of
00:11Azov and into the rest of the world.
00:13The new home of the Black Sea fleet after it was chased out of Crimea's Sevastopol port.
00:18If Novorossiysk goes down, what's left of Russia's naval presence in Ukraine goes down with it.
00:25Ukraine knows that. It just hit Novorossiysk hard.
00:29Massive fireballs have erased key assets at Novorossiysk from the map.
00:34Ukraine just broke the port, and with it goes a lifeline that was keeping the heart of the Russian war
00:39machine beating.
00:41Last night, Ukraine's defense forces carried out a unique operation targeting the naval base in Novorossiysk,
00:47the last major stronghold of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, more than 300 kilometers from the front line,
00:53declared Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an August 12th ex-post.
00:59Ukraine didn't hold back. Jet-powered aerial drones, unmanned maritime systems, and a horde of Neptune missiles all converged on
01:08one target,
01:09wrecking everything from piers to air defense positions and seaport infrastructure.
01:15Novorossiysk is shell-shocked. The sailors and port workers are barely able to believe that Ukraine's assault not only got
01:21through the port's defenses,
01:23but managed to cause as much damage as it did. And nowhere is that pain felt more deeply than in
01:28the one asset that Putin thought would be a war-winner for Russia,
01:32the Black Sea Fleet. That fleet had a very bad night.
01:37Ukraine's non-stop overnight blitz has taken four of Russia's warships out of the game,
01:42ensuring Russia will never again be able to use them to threaten Ukraine in the Black Sea or launch missiles
01:48into Ukrainian territory.
01:49Among the ships Ukraine hit were a pair of Project 11356 frigates, Euromiden press reports.
01:57The Admiral Essen and the Admiral Makarov, which are among the newest missile cruisers that Russia has introduced into the
02:03Black Sea Fleet,
02:04are burning following Ukraine's strikes.
02:06Both ships are lethal, capable of launching caliber cruise missiles, which have ranges up to 2,500 kilometers,
02:13can carry 450 kilogram warheads, and are also believed to be nuclear capable.
02:19These ships are key to the naval strategy that Russia has been forced to pursue in the Black Sea.
02:24Keep these ships as far away from Ukraine as possible and strike from distance.
02:28Ukraine can strike from distance, too. It just proved it.
02:32And two of Russia's best missile cruisers just got a bitter taste of their own medicine.
02:37These two cruisers aren't the only missile-launching ships Ukraine struck in its overnight assault.
02:41A Bayon-M, small missile ship, also went down under fire.
02:46Also capable of launching caliber cruise missiles, this ship may not be as shiny and new as the two Project
02:5111356 frigates that Ukraine hit,
02:53but it's just as important to Putin's missile-laden strategy.
02:57And finally, as a nice little bonus, Ukraine also took out the Vasily-Bykov,
03:01a patrol ship that has been visited by Ukraine's drones before.
03:04The vessel may not be the most important of the Russian warships hit in the early hours of August 12th,
03:09but the fact that the ship was hit at all will reinforce the message that Ukraine just drummed into Putin's
03:15head.
03:15The Black Sea fleet is no longer safe in Novorossiysk.
03:19Scratch that, Novorossiysk itself isn't safe.
03:22Beyond the ships, there is the burning.
03:24Footage is already making the rounds on Telegram and X,
03:27shared by independent Russian outlets that risk it all to show what really happens
03:31when Russia claims to have repelled a Ukrainian drone assault.
03:34Xcelenova Plus has photos and videos of the massive blaze sparked at Novorossiysk by Ukraine's strike.
03:40One video shows a strike in action as we hear the ear-splitting explosion that rings out as one of
03:46Ukraine's projectiles finds its mark.
03:48The Crimean Wind Telegram channel offers more reports on fires,
03:52citing satellite imagery to showcase that Ukraine's drones and missiles sparked blazes at the military harbor
03:57that hosts ships from the Black Sea Fleet,
04:00an administrative building,
04:01and the Sheskaris oil terminal berth at the port.
04:05Perhaps it's the oil stored in that terminal,
04:07or even the tankers that were collecting that oil,
04:09that are the fuel for the fire that still rages in Russia's most important Black Sea port.
04:14The damage done is brutal and deliberate.
04:18It alone would be enough to grab all of the headlines.
04:21However, it's the attack itself that is truly special.
04:24This wasn't your standard Ukrainian drone strike, far from it.
04:28As Zelenskyy himself pointed out,
04:30Ukraine threw everything but the kitchen sink at Novorossiysk to get its results,
04:34in an all-out onslaught that included 400 drones.
04:37This was one of the biggest single strikes that Ukraine has carried out in the war so far,
04:42and it will go down as one of the most impressive coordinated assaults in the country's history.
04:47Ukraine just created its own blueprint for combining aerial and naval power
04:52to hit Russia where it hurts, and we know exactly which weapons it used to do it.
04:57Ukraine's Palyanitsiya rocket drone was the superstar of the show.
05:00Jet-powered and capable of traveling up to 650 kilometers,
05:04the system carries a 100-kilogram payload and has a cruising speed of 900 kilometers per hour.
05:10Flying as low as 15 meters from the ground,
05:14it's also incredibly difficult to stop using traditional air defense systems.
05:18Ukraine knew what it was doing when it deployed this drone,
05:21and not just when it comes to how hard this drone missile can hit.
05:25Palyanitsiya is the name of a traditional bread in Ukraine.
05:28Novorossiysk is a key export port for Russian grain.
05:32Bread to bread, Novorossiysk in ashes.
05:34The Palyanitsiya turned out to be one of the 15 different weapons systems,
05:39every single one of which was designed, developed and manufactured in Ukraine,
05:43that were used against Novorossiysk on the overnight blitz.
05:47The Kyiv Post details the others in its August 13th report.
05:51Joining the Palyanitsiya on the aerial drone front were the Mish,
05:54Sishen, Trust, Bober, Dovbush, Karyok, Ramsey, Firepoint and Lyuchi drones.
06:02Russia's air defenses would have had no idea what to target first,
06:05as Ukraine unveiled the true scale of its long-range drone projects,
06:09showing Putin just how far the nation that was supposed to never be capable of hitting Russia has come.
06:15Ukraine also deployed other drone-missile hybrid systems beyond the Palyanitsiya.
06:19The Peklo was among them.
06:21First provided to Ukraine's forces in December 2024,
06:24that drone missile can travel up to 700 kilometers,
06:27and has a top speed that matches this range per hour.
06:30The Baars is similar, with a range of up to 800 kilometers.
06:34It is capable of carrying a warhead weighing between 50 and 100 kilograms,
06:38and it rockets towards its targets using turbojet engines.
06:41As if drones and drone-missile hybrids weren't enough,
06:45Ukraine also sent its Long Neptune missiles into the fray.
06:49Described by United24 media as the
06:52long-range cruise missile Europe still can't make back in October 2025,
06:57the Long Neptune, or RK-360-L if you want to get technical about it,
07:01is an extended-range version of Ukraine's Neptune D missiles.
07:05It was also the heaviest hitter of the aerial projectiles that Ukraine sent Russia's way on August 12th.
07:10Capable of traveling about 1,000 kilometers, the missile could reach Novorossiysk with ease.
07:16The Long Neptune carries a 260-kilogram warhead,
07:20and is believed to use a guidance system similar to that used by Scalp and Storm Shadow missiles
07:25that the UK and France have sent to Ukraine.
07:28The brilliant technical minds in Ukraine must have reverse-engineered those missiles
07:32and figured out how to develop something similar only with greater range.
07:36And finally, there were the maritime drones.
07:39Russia may have been expecting the infamous Sea Baby.
07:42What it got were Ukraine's Sargan and Mumai unmanned surface vessels.
07:47Specifications for the former are still classified,
07:49though there was speculation back in April that Ukraine had unleashed a machine-gun-toting Sargan 3000 into the Black
07:55Sea.
07:56We know that these drones can also be loaded with missiles,
07:59so perhaps it was responsible for launching a few of Ukraine's drone missile hybrids at Novorossiysk.
08:04Why send a missile cruiser to do a drone's work, eh?
08:07We know a little more about the Mumai.
08:09Back in December 2023, Militanyi dubbed this maritime drone the fastest thing in the Black Sea
08:15due to its ability to reach a top speed of around 59 knots.
08:18Throw a 450kg warhead into the mix and you get a drone that can catch anything and hit hard.
08:25Not that Russia's stricken ships were trying to sail away.
08:28They were hit while hiding in the one Black Sea port that Russia thought was safe.
08:33The strike on Novorossiysk was so severe that Russia might be considering sending the Black Sea back to Sevastopol.
08:40That wouldn't be a good idea.
08:41As Novorossiysk was being absorbed in a blanket of hellfire, Ukrainian drones were also en route to Sevastopol.
08:48Over 30 were shot down, claimed the city's Kremlin-appointed governor, Mikhail Razvozaev,
08:53but he also happened to mention that fires had broken out all over the port city.
08:57Later, according to a Pravda report, a blackout swept Sevastopol,
09:01suggesting not all of Ukraine's drones were shot down.
09:05Some of them hit power infrastructure as a nice little reminder to the ships that remain in the Black Sea
09:09fleet
09:10that they have nowhere to run now that Novorossiysk is a target.
09:14Sure, they could head back to Sevastopol, but Ukraine's aerial and naval power can still find them just as easily,
09:19if not more so, in that Crimean port.
09:22Razvozaev's statement wasn't the only Russian response we received following a night that has broken
09:27whatever naval power Putin still thought he had in the Black Sea.
09:30The Krasnodar regional governor, Venyamin Kondratiev,
09:34reported that Russian air defenses had
09:37repelled a massive attack by several hundred Ukrainian armed forces drones.
09:42Wait a second, what? How did you repel them?
09:44Did you physically launch missile cruisers and a port at them?
09:48Because that's the only reason we can come up with for them being on fire due to the drones that
09:52were supposedly repelled.
09:54Maybe Russia's air defense problems really are that bad.
09:57Kondratiev made no mention of the burning port or the destroyed ships,
10:01instead preferring to point out that debris from projectiles that Russia did manage to shoot down
10:06fell on 21 residential buildings and caused some casualties.
10:11Ukraine didn't strike any of those targets deliberately.
10:14Russia made the conscious choice to shoot down drones and missiles over its own people.
10:19Russia says it repelled Ukraine's strike. It didn't.
10:22And the cost of that failure is much greater than you may initially expect.
10:26Novorossiysk isn't just any old port. It's everything for Russia in the Black Sea.
10:31But before we explain more, this is a reminder that you're watching the military show.
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10:45We'll start with something that we've mentioned a few times before.
10:49Novorossiysk is the new home of the Black Sea Fleet.
10:51Russia never wanted the port to host its warships.
10:54It was forced to make the switch from Sevastopol because of a devastating Ukrainian campaign
10:58that had destroyed or seriously damaged about a third of the fleet that Putin thought could dominate the Black Sea.
11:05Much of the damage that Ukraine caused had happened by the end of 2023,
11:09sparking the decision to switch to Novorossiysk as the Black Sea Fleet's main operating base.
11:13Throughout 2024 and 2025, warships did the opposite of what they were built to do.
11:18They sailed as far away from Ukraine as they could get,
11:21leaving Sevastopol practically abandoned by the Black Sea Fleet by mid-2025.
11:26Novorossiysk was the desperate option.
11:29Yes, it's a massive port, but it's also a port built for merchant ships, not warships.
11:33It has no repair facilities, and it lacks a dry dock.
11:37Novorossiysk is also exposed to worse sea conditions, defense viewpoint notes,
11:41which creates its own set of maintenance issues.
11:44Still, Russia had no choice.
11:45Prior to Ukraine's attack, Russia was even developing plans
11:48to relocate the remaining command and control units for the Black Sea Fleet
11:52that remained in Sevastopol to Novorossiysk.
11:54That's according to the Kyiv Independent, which says that subdued officers
11:58were basically being forced to arrange the relocations of their families
12:02and to sell property they couldn't take with them ahead of their transfers.
12:06The one upside of all of this is that Novorossiysk,
12:09though certainly not out of the range of Ukraine's drones and missiles,
12:12was supposed to be safer than Sevastopol.
12:14Crimea is a war zone and has been for a while.
12:17At least at Novorossiysk, there was less chance that the Black Sea Fleet
12:20would be hit with a massive attack that destroyed ships and left the entire port burning.
12:25Ahem, that didn't work out so well for Russia and its ailing fleet.
12:29Novorossiysk is safe no more.
12:31300 kilometers is practically nothing for Ukraine's newest generations
12:35of drones, missiles and maritime unmanned vessels to travel.
12:38The port isn't out of reach,
12:40it just takes a little longer for Ukraine to bring its firepower.
12:43And now that we've just seen how massive a Ukrainian strike
12:46against Novorossiysk has the potential to be,
12:49we can say with confidence that Ukraine is winning in the Black Sea.
12:53All that Russia's fleet can now do is rely on its dwindling fleet of missile cruisers
12:58to launch attacks from range.
12:59And when one of those cruisers gets hit,
13:01it's in a port that lacks repair facilities to bring it back online.
13:05Bit by bit, Novorossiysk could be the death of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
13:09But as painful as that will be for Putin and his Kremlin cronies,
13:13there's another, far more damaging problem that Russia has to deal with.
13:17Novorossiysk is primarily a trade port.
13:19And when that sort of port is on fire,
13:22Russia can't get its oil and grain out to the rest of the world,
13:25which means the Kremlin's war coffers lose out on a whole lot of money.
13:29Russia has been using Novorossiysk as a hub for its shadow fleet
13:32throughout the Ukraine invasion.
13:34Ballast Markets offers the basic statistics for 2024,
13:37reporting that Novorossiysk is the 77th largest port in the world based on vessel traffic.
13:43In 2024, approximately 4,478 vessel calls were reported at the port,
13:491,578 of which were made by oil tankers.
13:53You may remember we mentioned the Sheskaris oil terminal earlier.
13:57Keep that terminal in mind because it's going to become important in a moment.
14:00Ballast Markets reports that Novorossiysk's primary commodity is crude oil,
14:05which accounts for 45% of all vessel calls.
14:08Refined petroleum is next with 25% of vessel calls,
14:11followed by grain and coal metals,
14:14each of which accounts for 15% of the vessel calls.
14:17This is a trade port.
14:18And it's one where 75% of the recorded traffic comes from Russia's shadow fleet.
14:23Every year, billions of dollars worth of commodities flow through Novorossiysk.
14:28The revenue generated by this trade can be taxed by the Kremlin,
14:32with that money being pumped into Russia's war effort.
14:35Now, remember Sheskaris.
14:37Beyond the Black Sea Fleet warship that Ukraine took out on August 12th,
14:41this oil terminal may have absorbed the heaviest damage from the overnight strike.
14:45Militani reports that many of the fires we told you about
14:48are being recorded in the area around this oil terminal.
14:51Meaning Ukraine has just taken out the one part of Novorossiysk
14:54that is dedicated to getting illicit oil onto sanctioned ships.
14:57The Sheskaris terminal is the endpoint of Russian oil company Transneft's main oil pipelines.
15:04And it's one of the two major industrial sites at Novorossiysk.
15:07The other being Groshavaya, which is about 12 kilometers away.
15:11Sheskaris has a capacity of 75 million tons per year,
15:15along with a massive tank farm that can hold 1.28 million cubic meters of oil.
15:19If we were betting people, we'd suggest that the blaze rising up from Novorossiysk right now
15:24has been caused by Ukraine scoring direct hits against this tank farm.
15:28And that's a problem for Russia.
15:30The more of its oil that burns, the less money it can make to pump into the war machine.
15:35With Sheskaris down, that's up to 70% of Russia's oil and refined petroleum trade
15:41quite literally going up in smoke until Russia can put out the fires and make repairs.
15:46But the problem only gets worse the closer you look.
15:49Along with the oil terminal, Ukraine's drone strike has also shut down a pair of grain terminals at Novorossiysk.
15:55That's according to Reuters, which reports that these terminals are among the largest in Russia.
15:59One of them has a capacity of 8.5 million tons per year, an anonymous source told the outlet.
16:05And it has been forced to suspend its operations pending an investigation into damage done by Ukraine's drones and missiles.
16:12The other handles 7.1 million tons of grain annually and has been forced to suspend operations due to the
16:18damage.
16:19That's a pipeline that handles a total of 15.6 million tons of Russia's grain exports
16:24that has just been shut down, all in a single night.
16:28So what we saw on the night of August 11 and into August 12 was one of Ukraine's most impressive
16:34strikes for a number of reasons.
16:36The sheer level of coordination between 15 different weapons systems is astounding.
16:41Ukraine showcased a huge portion, though certainly not all, of its long-range capabilities.
16:46And it did it in a way that both delivered an explosive message to Russia
16:50and highlighted Ukraine's improving ability to carry out coordinated long-range strikes.
16:55Then there's what Ukraine hit.
16:57The Black Sea fleet has been further weakened, further expanding Ukraine's claim of controlling the Black Sea.
17:03But beyond that, there's a second layer to the strike.
17:06A layer that has likely already cost Russia millions of dollars, and that would be a low-end estimate.
17:11Oil has burned.
17:13Grain and oil terminals have been shut down by damage and flame.
17:17Russia's air defenses at its most important Black Sea port weren't able to stop any of it.
17:22Novorossiysk has now been established as a target, and Ukraine just keeps on getting better at hitting targets at range.
17:29Russia will put out the fires, it will carry out repairs, but it will also know that all of this
17:34work could be undone in an instant if Ukraine decides to follow up with a similar attack.
17:38The goal now is to make Novorossiysk as useless to Russia as Sevastopol has become.
17:43Ukraine has the aerial and naval options needed to make that happen as the once-safe harbour has become the
17:49latest Russian asset to be forced into a war that Putin promised would never cross the border with Ukraine.
17:55Putin's reputation as Russia's great protector has been damaged once more.
17:59And it already wasn't doing so well.
18:02As Russia's most important Black Sea export hub burns, Ukraine is also targeting Russia's internal logistics.
18:09More wild berries facilities are going down, a critical vulnerability in Russia's supply chain and economic structure is being systematically
18:16dismantled, and the Kremlin is panicking.
18:19Find out all about these strikes and the impact they're having on Russia's economy by watching our video.
18:24And before you go, don't forget to subscribe to The Military Show to see more of our analysis of Ukraine's
18:29most devastating strikes.
18:31And thank you, as always, for watching.
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