Drones Attack Yeysk Seaport in Russia’s Krasnodar Region

Drones attacked the seaport of Yeysk in Russia’s Krasnodar region on Saturday, Aug. 22, resulting in visible smoke around the facility, according to independent Russian media reports. The Astra Telegram channel reported the strike, citing video footage taken by eyewitnesses from the coast of the Sea of Azov. The footage shows smoke rising from the port area, which was subsequently verified by an OSINT analyst for the channel.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The attack followed an air raid alert issued in the city earlier in the day due to the threat of incoming drones. Additionally, the Supernova+ Telegram channel reported preliminary information suggesting that a vessel caught fire following the strike on the port. Official Russian authorities have not yet commented on the incident or provided details on potential damage or casualties. Refinery and logistics strikes in Samara The attack on Yeysk coincided with drone strikes targeting infrastructure in Russia’s Samara region early Saturday morning. A drone strike caused a fire at the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, a Rosneft facility with a design capacity of approximately 8.8 million tons of oil per year. Simultaneously, reports emerged on social media regarding an attack on a major fulfillment center belonging to the e-commerce company Ozon in Samara. Video footage purportedly showed the moment of impact, with subsequent reports indicating an ongoing fire at the 75,000-square-meter facility, which is one of the largest in Ozon’s federal network. Other Topics of Interest Russia’s Shopping Mall Strike on Zelensky’s Hometown Kills 15, Injures 130 as Rescue Continues At least 15 have been confirmed dead with over 130 injured after the city’s largest shopping mall was struck twice. Ozon is one of Russia’s two largest online marketplaces, alongside Wildberries. Together, they controlled 77% of all marketplace orders in the country in 2024. Campaign against Russian e-commerce The reported strike on the Ozon facility follows a sustained, month-long campaign targeting the logistics infrastructure of its main competitor, Wildberries. Ukraine began targeting Wildberries infrastructure on July 18. Over the subsequent month, at least 22 of the marketplace’s warehouses were hit, representing the loss of about 2.395 million square meters of warehouse space, or 43% of the company’s total capacity. The most significant recent strike occurred on Aug. 16, which completely destroyed the company’s 230,000-square-meter complex in Koledino (Podolsk), reportedly Wildberries’ largest hub. Analysts estimated that goods worth 78 billion rubles ($918 million) were destroyed in that single fire. As of mid-August, analysts from Data Insight and the Association of Suppliers of Goods for Trading on Electronic Platforms estimated the total value of goods destroyed across all affected Wildberries warehouses to be between $5.2 billion and $8.2 billion. Recent operations had disabled seven of Wildberries’ 10 largest logistics centers, asserting that the marketplace is a legitimate military target because dual-use items have been available for purchase on the platform. Tymur Dubovyk - journalist, newsfeed editor