Evidence Has Emerged Of A Russian Ship Being Hit In Novorossiysk Bay

It's been taken away for repairs.

Satellite images of the port of Novorossiysk have appeared on the Web, showing the transportation of the Project 1171 landing ship Tapir by two tugboats - earlier it was reported that it was damaged during a Ukrainian drone attack.

The images were posted on November 26 on his social media page by OSINT researcher Tom Baik.

"The Project 1171 Type Tapir landing ship was damaged during Ukraine's latest attack on Novorossiysk yesterday at 44.7145,37.8299. It was spotted in the inner part of the naval base, where it was being towed by two tugs from the dock to another 'protected' place inside the breakwaters for repairs," he wrote.

It was previously reported that on the night of November 25, servicemen from the SBU's Alpha special operations center, together with the Security and Defense Forces, hit daily drones hit a number of military and logistics facilities at the port of Novorossiysk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai with

🇷🇺 Project 1171 "Tapir" landing ship hit in last Ukraine 🇺🇦 Novorossiysk attack INSIDE NAVAL BASE BREAKWATERS spotted YESTERDAY 👇 at

44.7145,37.8299

being towed by 2 tugs from dock were she was to another "protected" place inside breakwaters for repairs.

Illustrative inset. https://t.co/RR5hkdjMrP pic.twitter.com/9UDChNsAIy

- Tom Bike (@tom_bike) November 26, 2025