The Leningrad region came under a fresh Ukrainian drone attack overnight, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said in a Telegram post early Sunday. Air defenses have shot down 31 drones so far, while the emergency services are working to put down a fire at Ust-Luga port, he said.<\/p>\n
The Leningrad region on the Baltic coast hosts major Russian export hubs and has come under repeated Ukrainian attacks over the past week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Loadings at Ust-Luga have been halted since Wednesday<\/a> after it sustained significant damage, endangering Russian oil exports. Another port in the region, Primorsk, has also sustained damage. Just before the recent Ukrainian attacks, Primorsk and Ust-Luga handled about 45%, or 1.72 million barrels a day, of Russia\u2019s seaborne crude exports, shipment data seen by Bloomberg show.<\/p>\n The damage to both ports threatens to blunt a potential boost to Russian oil export revenues from price increases sparked by the Iran war. The jump had given President Vladimir Putin an opportunity to cover part of a widening budget gap as the economy slows.<\/p>\n Both Russia and Ukraine strike each other daily<\/a> with drones and, at times, missiles as the war enters its fifth year. Ukraine\u2019s attacks are aimed at cutting Russian profits used to sustain the war, often targeting oil, energy and other industrial infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n Russia often hits civilian infrastructure in addition to industrial sites. Overnight, eight people were injured in a Russian drone attack in Ukraine\u2019s Mykolaiv region, according to regional authorities.<\/p>\n \u00a9\u00a02026\u00a0Bloomberg L.P.Share<\/p>\n Editorial Standards<\/a> \u00b7 Corrections<\/a> \u00b7 About gCaptain<\/a><\/p>\n This article contains reporting from Bloomberg, published under license.<\/p>\n \t\t Sign up for gCaptain\u2019s newsletter and never miss an update<\/p>\n \u2014 trusted by our 107,443 members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Bloomberg News Mar 29, 2026 (Bloomberg) \u2013Russia\u2019s Ust-Luga port sustained fresh damage from a Ukrainian drone attack, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[41264,7697,332,753,242574],"class_list":["post-858745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-drone-attack","tag-ports","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ust-luga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116313910668343069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"logo\"\/](\"https:\/\/gcaptain.com\/wp-content\/themes\/gCaptain-Theme\/assets\/images\/gcaptain-new-gray-logo.svg\"){kind=logo}
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