The Ukrainian military reports that it has struck a Russian warship and a drilling rig in the Black Sea.Kyiv’s drone forces commander, Robert Brovdi, said on Monday that the overnight attack targeted the Admiral Makarov missile carrier in the port of Novorossiysk, which is Russia’s largest oil exporting outlet on the Black Sea. Ukraine has increased its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure in a bid to disrupt export revenues that feed into Moscow’s war chest.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listRussian authorities said at least eight people, including two children, were injured in Novorossiysk, without specifying whether the port was struck.Videos posted on Telegram and verified by Al Jazeera’s verification unit showed a fire at one of the oil port’s docks in the city.Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said debris from drones had fallen on two locations in the city, including a residential area.Russia’s military said in the early morning that air defence units had downed 148 Ukrainian drones over a three-hour period. It added that officials said emergency crews were restoring power to nearly half a million households in outages linked to air attacks. Ukraine has concentrated drone attacks around the port of Novorossiysk throughout the war but has ramped up its efforts to halt Russian energy exports recently [File: Reuters]A Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal is located in the Novorossiysk port area. It exports oil from Kazakhstan, and its shareholders include major US oil companies, such as Chevron and ExxonMobil. Advertisement Ukraine has si …
