Overview
- Regional authorities said a Nov. 2 drone attack on the port caused a fire on an oil tanker and damaged two civilian vessels.
- Satellite images from the same day reportedly showed an oil slick extending more than three kilometers off the Tuapse coast.
- Tuapse port staff inspected the waters after the strike and, according to district head Sergey Boyko, found no oil-product stains.
- Boyko reported a post-attack cleanup of about 300 meters of shoreline between Gizel-Dere and Yuzhny, collecting 2.5 cubic meters of pebbles described as contaminated with mazut.
- Officials previously declared the Black Sea seabed fully cleaned of mazut in mid-September, while Boyko did not reference the tanker damage in his public update and the slick’s origin remains unresolved.