Which specific drone strike is being referenced and what were its confirmed targets?

1. Multiple strike narratives, not one isolated event

The material you supplied spans different incidents and actors: Ukrainian naval drones striking Russian-linked tankers in the Black Sea (reported by Reuters), large Russian combined missile-and-drone raids on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure (reported by BBC, CNN, PBS), and separate reports of drone strikes inside Russia such as in Dagestan (Kyiv Independent). No single source in your set ties all these threads into one named incident; they instead document concurrent, distinct drone operations across several days and theaters ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}.

2. Most specific confirmed targets: the ‘shadow fleet’ tankers

Reuters documents a clear, attributed strike: Ukrainian naval drones hit two sanctioned tankers in the Black Sea as they were heading to a Russian port to load oil — described as part of Kyiv’s campaign to pressure Russia’s “shadow fleet” that moves sanctioned oil ^[1]. That account names both the actor (Ukrainian naval drones) and the targets (two tankers linked to oil exports), making it the most concrete match in your search set ^[1].

3. Larger pattern: strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine

Multiple outlets report large Russian aerial assaults that explicitly targeted Ukraine’s energy grid and civilian structures. BBC and CNN describe attacks where “energy infrastructure and civilian facilities” were the main targets, leaving power outages affecting hundreds of thousands, fires in residential buildings, and civilian casualties ^{[2] [3]}. PBS and other reporting quantify scale — for example, one attack said to include hundreds of drones and many missiles — and cite Ukrainian officials saying energy and military‑industrial sites were targeted ^{[4] [2]}.

4. Claims and denials: competing official narratives

Sources show a pattern of conflicting claims: Ukrainian and Western outlets attribute strikes on Russian logistics, oil shipping and military targets to Kyiv; Russian authorities often describe incoming attacks as directed at Ukrainian military‑industrial or energy facilities and deny targeting civilians ^{[1] [4] [3]}. For the November 14/late‑November strikes, Zelensky and Kyiv officials said civilian housing and energy infrastructure were hit; Moscow’s defense ministry described targeting military‑industrial and energy facilities ^{[4] [3]}. These divergent public narratives are present across the reporting ^{[4] [3] [1]}.

5. Other incidents in the set: strikes inside Russian regions and claims of deep strikes

The Kyiv Independent reports a drone strike in Dagestan that may have damaged buildings near a military‑industrial plant and suggests the Dagdizel shipbuilding facility could have been a target; that account is less definitive and attributes the claim to local media and Telegram channels ^[5]. Other sources in your set discuss the broader escalation of deep strikes and use of long‑range systems but do not identify a single discrete drone strike beyond the tanker incident and the mass Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure ^{[6] [7]}.

6. What’s missing and how to clarify further

Available sources do not mention the specific strike you asked about if you meant a different, single named incident; they instead document several separate events with overlapping timelines ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}. To identify “which specific drone strike” precisely, provide: date and location; whether the strike was maritime or overland; or the actor you believe carried it out. With that detail, these outlets can be re‑checked for tighter attribution and target confirmation.

Limitations and provenance: this analysis relies solely on the supplied search results. On attribution and casualty counts, official statements and local reporting diverge; I have flagged where sources explicitly name targets (e.g., Reuters on the tankers) and where claims are contested or reported via local channels (e.g., Dagestan) ^{[1] [5] [4] [2] [3]}.