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Novorossiysk is key Black Sea outlet for Russian oil

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Fire reported at Sheskharis oil terminal

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Three crew members injured on a vessel

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Global oil prices up on supply concerns

(Recasts with port suspending oil exports, adds damage detail)

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) -

Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a key outlet for

Russian commodity shipments, suspended oil exports on Friday

after what authorities said was a major Ukrainian drone attack,

two industry sources told Reuters.

The attack, one of the biggest on Russian oil-exporting

infrastructure in recent months, comes after Ukraine in August

stepped up strikes on Russian oil refineries in an attempt to

degrade Moscow's ability to finance its

war.

Long-range Ukrainian air and sea drone strikes have

repeatedly disrupted Russian oil infrastructure this year,

targeting Baltic and Black Sea ports, a trunk pipeline system,

and a number of oil refineries.

UKRAINE ALSO FIRES CRUISE MISSILES, ZELENSKIY SAYS

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday

Kyiv had

also fired long-range "Long Neptune" cruise missiles

at targets in Russia overnight, adding that such strikes

were getting more successful all the time. He mentioned no

targets.

Russian pipeline oil monopoly Transneft has

also been forced to suspend supplies to Novorossiysk, the

sources told Reuters. The company declined to comment.

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which exports oil from

Kazakhstan through a neighbouring terminal, also suspended oil

loadings until the drone alert is lifted.

Debris from the drones fell on the terrain of Russian

grain terminal NKHP, which was working normally, Interfax news

agency reported, citing director general Yury Medvedev.

Russian officials said Friday's attack had also damaged a

docked ship, apartment buildings and an oil depot in

Novorossiysk, injuring three of the vessel's crew members.

Global oil prices initially jumped by around 2% on

supply fears after the attack, but recovered some ground and

were up by less than 1% by 0815 GMT.

Delo, a transport and logistics group, said drone debris

had fallen onto a container terminal in Novorossiysk, but that

its operations continued as usual.

'NOVOROSSIYSK SUFFERED MOST'

Crude oil shipments via Novorossiysk reached 3.22 million

tonnes, or 761,000 barrels a day, in October, according to

industry sources. For the first 10 months of the year, the

figure was 24.716 million tonnes.

The sources told Reuters that a total of 1.794 million

tonnes of oil products had been exported through Novorossiysk in

October and that the figure from January until October totalled

16.783 million tonnes.

"Novorossiysk suffered the most," Veniamin Kondratyev, the

governor of the Krasnodar region, where Novorossiysk is located,

said on social media.

"Overnight, more than 170 people and 50 pieces of equipment

dealt with the aftermath of the attack, quickly extinguishing

fires and assisting residents," he said.

Three injured crew members of the damaged boat were being

treated in hospital, said Kondratyev.

Local officials later said that a fire at an oil depot at

the Sheskharis terminal, which handles crude oil and oil product

exports, had been extinguished.

Coastal structures had also been damaged, they said, without

providing details.

Reuters could not verify the accounts of the attacks and

there was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials.