Drone strike starts fire at Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga

A fire broke out at Russia’s Ust-Luga port on the Baltic Sea after a Ukrainian drone strike, the Leningrad regional governor Alexander Drozdenko said in a Telegram post Nov. 11.

Astra news reported a fire at Novatek’s gas condensate processing complex in Ust-Luga, as well as at several more locations.

Later, the Ukrainian military confirmed in a Telegram post the Ust-Luga port attack. It said that based on preliminary information, the tank farm at the port’s oil infrastructure incurred “the most significant damage,” adding that five tanks containing oil products with total capacity of 150,000 cubic meters have been damaged.

It also said that a production facilities were hit with a hydrocracker catching fire, without specifying the facility.

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