Ukraine has stepped up its campaign against Russian energy infrastructure, with drone strikes hitting key export facilities around the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. Russia said attacks damaged the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal, including a single point mooring (SPM), loading infrastructure and four large storage tanks. The CPC terminal, located southwest of Novorossiysk, is a critical outlet for Kazakhstan’s crude, handling around 80% of the country’s exports and roughly 1.5% of global oil supply. Ukraine’s military said it also targeted the nearby Sheskharis oil terminal. According to Ukrainian officials, six of seven tanker loading berths were damaged, along with parts of the pipeline hub and metering systems. Moscow was quick to condemn the attack. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described it as “pure terrorism”, accusing Kyiv of targeting energy infrastructure to inflict wider economic damage. She said the strikes were aimed at sectors that affect “the lives of ordinary people”, adding that the attack on CPC also hit the interests of international stakeholders, including US oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil as well as Kazakhstan. The latest incidents form part of a broader wave of strikes over the weekend. Ukrainian drones also hit the Baltic port of Primorsk, the NORSI refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region and other infrastructure tied to Russia’s export chain. Kyiv has intensified its focus on oil facilities in recent weeks, aiming to curb Moscow’s export revenues. Ukrainian officials argued that higher oil income is being used to fund Russia’s war effort. The escalation comes as Russia has been trying to keep exports flowing amid shifting global dynamics, including a temporary easing of sanctions pressure and tighter oil markets linked to conflict in the Middle East. Despite the reported damage, Kazakhstan’s energy ministry said flows via CPC remain stable, with exports continuing. The Tengiz–Novorossiysk pipeline shipped about 70.5m tonnes last year, or roughly 1.53m barrels per day. The latest strikes are among the most serious on Black Sea export infrastructure since the war began more than four years ago. Previous attacks late last year forced a temporary halt at CPC after one of its floating moorings was knocked out. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); }); TagsKazakhstan Russia Ukraine