Fire in the port of "Ust-Luga" near St. Petersburg: How "Russian vessels" (photo, map) were "running away"

It was processed by fuel, which was supplied to the occupiers, so its damage would complicate logistics for the Russian military. The head of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies Andriy Klimenko and the editor -in -chief of Blackseanews told new details and showed the port card where the blow was hit on his Facebook page. Andriy Klimenko posted a photo showing the port of Ust-Luga and oil objects, noting that there is "something to burn.

" "The yellow arrow points to the terminal from the transshipment of gas condensate where for some reason the fire occurred. Below is Rosneft oil terminal. Even below - the terminal of sulfur transshipment. . The yellow marks in the sea are tankers. Red - tugboats. The tracks show how they fled into the sea from the berths, "he explained. The port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region is located near St.

Petersburg, in the Luzka Gulf of the Baltic Sea of ​​the Finnish Gulf near the village of the same name. The port began work in December 2001 with a coal terminal. By the early 2020s he became the largest port in the Baltic and the second largest in Russia. We will remind, on the night of January 21 the drones attacked the port "Ust-Luga", on the oil terminal of the company "Novatek" there were two explosions. Before the attacks, the locals heard the sound of drones.

According to eyewitnesses, during the UAV strike on the terminal there continued a load of eight vessels under the flags of Panama, Malta, Liberia, Gabon, Greece, Marshall Islands, Cayman Islands and Hong Kong. Official Russian media reported on the attack. Thus, the TASS writes that the technological process at the production complex "Novatek-Ust-Luga" is stopped, and the evaluation of losses will be carried out later.

It is also reported that two tanks and a pumping station were damaged as a result of the fire in the Novatek terminal, but no one was injured. "There are no threats to life and health of people. There is currently localized fire, experts of the enterprise, prompt response services and the Ministry of Emergencies are controlled by residual burnout of hydrocarbon raw materials," Novatek added.