Russia said an overnight fire was extinguished at a port in the Vysotsk region on the Baltic Sea after Ukrainian drone attacks, while a Kremlin strike on Ukraine’s north left 380,000 users without power.Russian air defenses destroyed 27 unmanned aerial vehicles over the Leningrad region, according to a Telegram post on Saturday by Governor Alexander Drozdenko.The Vysotsk port, about 160km northwest of St Petersburg, is an export hub that handles oil products and other cargo. Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil producer, owns a terminal at the facility.The Leningrad region’s Baltic coast also hosts the ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga, through which about 40% of Russia’s seaborne crude oil exports pass. It’s been a target of intensified Ukrainian drone attacks this year as Kyiv aims to curb the influx of petrodollars to the Kremlin.BLOOMBERG
