Russia partly restarts Ust-Luga oil flows after drone strikes disrupt key Baltic hub
This was the first crude oil shipment operation after a pause of several days. (Photo: ru.wikipedia.org)
Russia’s Baltic Sea oil port of Ust-Luga partly resumed
operations after several days of downtime caused by Ukrainian drone attacks, Bloomberg
reported on April 5.
This was the first crude oil shipment after a several-day
pause that began in late March amid repeated strikes on the region. The agency
said the drone attacks disrupted operations at one of Russia’s key oil hubs on
the Baltic.
Given the earlier attacks and the scale of the disruption,
the resumption of shipments at Ust-Luga suggests the port is returning to
limited operations rather than fully recovering from the strikes.
On March 29, Ukraine’s SBU Security Service said its
long-range drones had successfully struck infrastructure at the oil terminal in
the port of Ust-Luga.
Planet Labs satellite images from March 30 confirmed major
fires at oil facilities in the ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga in Leningrad
Oblast after drone attacks.
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