Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Depot Near Key Black Sea Port
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A series of explosions rocked an oil storage facility near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, local sources report. Witnesses counted about 50 blasts before a massive fire erupted in the mountains above the port.
The facility, known as the Grushovaya depot, is connected to Novorossiysk's loading berths by pipelines that run through tunnels under a nearby mountain ridge. The pipelines stretch about 12 kilometers from the depot to the sea.
Novorossiysk is Russia's main oil export hub on the Black Sea. The strike targeted stored crude destined for tanker loading.