Fire breaks out at key Russian Baltic oil export port Ust-Luga
A fire broke out at the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast after a Ukrainian drone attack overnight into Wednesday, according to Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko and multiple Russian Telegram channels.
Drozdenko claimed Russian air defenses destroyed 56 drones over the region. Emergency crews were working to extinguish the blaze at the port, he said, adding that no casualties were reported so far.
The Ust-Luga sea terminal is one of Russia’s main logistics hubs on the Baltic Sea and is heavily used for exporting energy resources via the so-called “shadow fleet” to bypass international sanctions, Ukraine’s General Staff has previously noted.
This is the second such incident in the region in recent days. Overnight into March 23, drones struck the Primorsk port in Leningrad Oblast, damaging a fuel storage tank.
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