Russia said an overnight fire at a port in the Baltic Sea’s Vysotsk region was extinguished after Ukrainian drone strikes, while a Kremlin strike in northern Ukraine left 380,000 users without power.
Russian air defense destroyed 27 drones over the Leningrad region, governor Alexander Drozdenko said in a telegram on Saturday.
The port of Vysock, about 160 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg, is an export hub that handles oil products and other cargo. Lukoil PJSC, Russia’s largest private oil producer, owns a terminal at the facility.
The Baltic Sea coast of the Leningrad Oblast also hosts the ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga, through which about 40% of Russia’s seaborne oil exports pass. It has been the target of intensified Ukrainian drone attacks this year as Kiev seeks to curb the flow of petrodollars to the Kremlin.
Airstrikes in an area more than 1,000 km north of Kiev recently disrupted loading facilities, gas processing facilities and a refinery.
Drozdenko on Friday called on residents, especially military retirees and those with combat experience, to join so-called mobile armed squads stationed at critical facilities. They will be hired to help defend against airstrikes, he said in Telegram.
Ukraine also hit industrial facilities in Novokuybyshevsk and Syzran overnight, according to Vyacheslav Fedorišchev, governor of the Samara region in southwestern Russia, quoted by Interfax. RBC-Ukraine reported that the target was the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery.
In Ukraine, an overnight Russian attack damaged a key power facility in the Chernihiv region near the Belarusian border and left about 380,000 consumers without power, regional company Chernihivoblenergo said in a Telegram post.
Russia also hit a port and logistics infrastructure in the Odesa region, starting a fire and causing damage, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said in Telegram.
The war between Russia and Ukraine, now in its fifth year, shows no signs of abating. At least 18 people, including children, were killed and dozens injured in Thursday’s Russian attack on Kiev and several other major cities. Ukraine’s air defense said Russia launched more than 40 ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as more than 650 drones of various types, in what it described as one of the biggest assaults this year.
Drone strikes this week damaged 60 residential properties in Tuapse, Russia’s Black Sea region, according to regional officials. Two people were killed and several injured, authorities said.
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