On February 26, two ships were damaged in a UAV attack on a commercial seaport in Tuapse, ASTRA sources in the emergency services of the region said.
It was the diving boat Vodolaz 31, which belongs to the Maritime Rescue Service — its hull was damaged by shrapnel, water had to be pumped out — as well as the bulk carrier Mumtaz bey, which flies the flag of Panama. According to sources, the ship’s shrapnel damaged the superstructure, the wing of the navigation bridge and the portholes. There were 22 crew members on the cargo ship, most of them Turkish citizens, two Egyptian citizens, 2 Indian and 1 Azerbaijani. The cargo ship was loading coal, there were 25 thousand tons of cargo on board.
There are no casualties.
Earlier, ASTRA managed to geolocate one of the videos from the site of the attacks carried out by drones on the night of February 26 in Tuapse, Krasnodar Region, which indicates an attack on a commercial seaport.
Prior to that, ASTRA sources reported that drones had attacked the Tuapse oil refinery the night before. Two drones fell on the territory of the enterprise. As a result, part of the ELOU-AVT-12 oil refining unit was damaged as well as crude oil pipeline. According to ASTRA, the oil spilled over an area of 5 square meters. The information about the attack on the refinery was later officially confirmed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, as a result of the air defense work, two private houses on Krasnodarskaya Street were damaged, and a car burned down.
