Ukrainian drones hit Russias Ust Luga port, damaging Transneft oil hub handling 700000 barrels per day, as Kyiv targets Moscow war economy.
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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.
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Ukraine has regularly attacked Russian oil exporting facilities and oil refineries as it seeks to undermine Moscow’s war economy.
(Edited by : Srabastee Biswas)
