Traditionally, BSF has reloaded cruise missiles at Sevastopol in Crimea. With that facility increasingly held at risk by Ukrainian long-range strikes, Russia will highly likely see Novorossiysk as the best alternative site.
Russia will have to overcome their issues imminently "in time for maritime cruise missiles to be included in any winter campaign of strikes against Ukraine."
On 13 November 2023, the Ukrainian military claimed that Russia has paused firing maritime cruise missiles because of 'logistical problems' at Novorossiysk.
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