Russia's Ust-Luga port damaged by Ukrainian drones, fire breaks out


A satellite image shows smoke rising from Russia's Baltic port of Ust-Luga after a Ukrainian attack, in Ust-Luga, Leningrad Oblast, March 27, 2026. Vantor/Handout via REUTERS

MOSCOW, March ⁠29 (Reuters) - Russia's Ust-Luga port, ⁠one of its largest ‌petroleum export outlets, was damaged on Sunday in a Ukrainian drone ​attack that sparked ⁠a fire, Alexander ⁠Drozdenko, the governor of the ⁠northern ‌Leningrad region said on Telegram.

A total ⁠of 36 drones were shot ​down ‌over the region, Drozdenko said.

Ust-Luga, ⁠operated ​by Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, handles around 700,000 ⁠barrels per day of ​oil exports, and, according to sources, shipped 32.9 million ⁠metric tons of oil products in 2025.

Ukraine has regularly attacked Russian oil exporting ​facilities and oil ⁠refineries as it seeks ​to undermine Moscow's ‌war economy.

(Reporting by ​Reuters. Editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Mark Potter)

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