"The Night the Baltic Caught Fire": General Staff Shows Strike on Ust-Luga Port in Russia
Kyiv • UNN
Five tanks, a hydrocracking unit, a pumping station, and a berth were damaged at the Ust-Luga port. A large-scale fire broke out.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed the damage inflicted on the oil infrastructure of the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Region. This is reported by UNN.
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It is noted that Ust-Luga is one of Russia’s key ports on the Baltic Sea. Russian oil and petroleum products are exported through its terminals, and the revenue from them finances the production of missiles and drones used to strike Ukraine. That is why the port has come under attack more than once.
As a result of UAV strikes on the port’s oil infrastructure facilities, the tank farm suffered the greatest damage. Five tanks containing petroleum products, with a total capacity of 150,000 cubic metres, were damaged. A large-scale fire broke out. The production section was also damaged: a hydrocracking unit was hit, where a fire also broke out, as well as an air-cooling unit and a pumping station
It is reported that the pier from which petroleum products are loaded onto tankers was also hit.
Each damaged tank, unit, or pier reduces oil revenues to the budget of the aggressor country, which finances the war and weapons production
We remind you
The day before, drones attacked the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Region, where Russia’s largest oil terminal is located. The fire could be seen from dozens of kilometres away.