Drones attacked the Russian port of Ust-Luga

The hits caused a large-scale fire and an emergency shutdown of a transformer substation.

On the night of November 11, drones hit the port area of ​​Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region of Russia. This is reported by Russian media.

The first videos of the fire appeared at around 03:39. The footage shows large-scale burning, and the glow was visible even from Estonia. NASA’s FIRMS temperature anomaly tracking service recorded several fires in the port and the surrounding water area.

View of the fire in the port of Ust-Luga from the Estonian border

Russian media called this attack the most massive on the Leningrad region since the beginning of the year.

Caution, there is Russian swearing in the video

Reference. Ust-Luga is the largest Russian port on the Baltic Sea and the second largest after Novorossiysk. It is located approximately 120 km from St. Petersburg. Its territory is home to terminals for transshipment of oil, petroleum products, coal, sulfur, mineral fertilizers, gas condensate, liquefied gas, and containerized cargo.

According to Reuters, oil exports through the port in 2025 amounted to about 700 thousand barrels per day, and 32.8 million tons of petroleum products were exported.

This is not the first strike on the facility. On the night of September 1, the Defense Forces struck the NOVATEK-Ust-Luga oil refining complex, and previously the port was attacked twice in March, April 7, and on the night of August 14.

After those strikes, more than 30% of the oil storage tanks were damaged.