Drones hit Russian port infrastructure in Crimea and the Baltics

Two key areas of the enemy’s maritime logistics were hit at once — the Kerch port with the TPP fuel terminal and the ports of Ust-Luga and Vysotsk on the Baltic Sea.

On the night of July 6, drones struck the Kremlin’s port and energy infrastructure in two directions at once — in the occupied Crimea and in the Baltic Sea. This was reported by OSINT researchers Exilenova+.

A series of explosions were heard in the occupied Crimea, after which fires broke out, and part of the peninsula was left without electricity. The satellite recorded the burning centers in the territory of the Kerch seaport, in particular at the TPP fuel terminal, as well as at the Simferopol 330 kV substation, in the area of ​​the mobile gas turbine power plant and at the Gvardiyskoye military airbase.

The result was an imbalance in the Crimean energy system. Yalta, almost all of Simferopol and a significant part of Sevastopol were completely without electricity; outages were recorded in Kerch, Feodosia, Bakhchisarai and Dzhankoy. The so-called governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced the introduction of a special operating regime at energy facilities.

The Baltics were also hit that same night. The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, reported damage to infrastructure facilities in the areas of the ports of Ust-Luga and Vysotsk, as well as at the Luga training ground. According to him, 31 drones were shot down over the region, there were no injuries.

We will recall that Ust-Luga is one of the largest ports in Russia on the Baltic and a key hub for the export of oil and oil products, including with the involvement of the “shadow fleet”; Vysotsk specializes in the transshipment of oil products and LNG.

At the same time, the Kerch seaport and ferry terminal play the role of a backup for the vulnerable Crimean bridge, ensuring the supply of fuel and cargo to the peninsula.

This is not the first attack on the port infrastructure of Kerch – in late June, the Defense Forces systematically struck the Kerch port, the TES-Terminal-1 terminal, and the Kavkaz port on the Russian side of the strait in order to complicate the Russian Federation’s military logistics in Crimea.