On the night of May 2, drones attacked the commercial seaport in Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast, causing a fire, and flights were temporarily restricted at several russian airports.
This is reported by russian media and monitoring Telegram channels.
The russian side claims to have shot down more than 60 drones in the region. At the same time, they confirm that a fire broke out in Primorsk, but it has allegedly been extinguished. No oil spills have been reported.
According to the FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) mapping system, several fire outbreaks were recorded at the Primorsk port on the morning of May 3.
Russian Telegram channels also reported explosions in Vyborg and Ust-Luga. An air raid alert was declared in the Leningrad Oblast around 11:00 p.m. on May 2, and drones approaching the ports were detected approximately after 2:00 a.m.
How this affected airport operations?
The Interfax news agency reports that on the night of May 3, Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg temporarily suspended all arrivals and departures. Similar restrictions were imposed at airports in Pskov and Kostroma.
What is known about the port in Primorsk
The Primorsk seaport is russia’s largest oil loading hub on the Baltic Sea and the terminus of the Baltic Pipeline System. Its design capacity is up to 75 million tons of crude oil and 20 million tons of diesel fuel per year, and daily shipments can exceed 1 million barrels.
How far is it to Ukraine?
The distance from Primorsk and Ust-Luga to the Ukrainian border exceeds 1,100 km.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on the night of May 1, a fire broke out at a marine terminal in the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, russia, following a warning of a drone attack.
On April 20, residents of Tuapse complained about an “oil rain” that fell in the city amid a massive fire following a drone attack. On April 24, russian media reported that Tuapse faces the threat of a ruined tourist season due to pollution of the sea and coastline resulting from the drone attack on the oil refinery.
Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of the Krasnodar Krai in the aggressor state of the russian federation, called a video by Tuapse residents — in which they showed the aftermath of the “oil rain” or a stream of burning oil flowing through the city streets following one of the recent UAV attacks on the oil refinery — a "psychological attack".
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