Ukrainian Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Russia’s Key Baltic Oil Export Hub

-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi. Drones hit the port area of Ust-Luga, Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of the Leningrad region, said in a Telegram post on Wednesday. A preliminary investigation indicates that the drone attack struck the port area of Ust-Luga, sparking a fire. Efforts to extinguish the fire are underway, the governor said early on Wednesday local time, adding that a transformer substation in Ust-Luga also experienced an emergency shutdown.

NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System showed satellite images taken on Wednesday, with many new heat anomalies today across the whole Ust-Luga port area, potentially indicating multiple fires.