ASTRA sources in the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that on Friday night the seaport of Primorsk in the Leningrad Region was attacked by drones, which caused fires at two docks and one oil tanker.
At about 4 a.m., the drone crashed onto the site at dock No. 8, where the Phosphor tanker was moored under the flag of Hong Kong, loading diesel fuel. A fire broke out, and loading operations were stopped.
Another UAV crashed at dock No. 2, where the tanker Kaiun was stationed under the flag of Sierra Leone. There was a fire and heavy smoke, the staff was evacuated.
Another drone struck the oil tanker Kusto under the flag of Sierra Leone. A fire started on the tanker, the crew of 28 people was evacuated, there were no injuries.
Another drone damaged oil metering and pumping equipment in dock area No. 1, where a fire broke out, as well as an oil storage tank at oil depot No. 1. There was no fire in the tank. According to sources, all technological operations in the port were stopped. There were no casualties.
In addition, local residents report that after the attack, traces of an oil spill appeared on the beach in the village of Karasevka on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.
Earlier, Ukrainian media sources in the SBU confirmed the destruction of the Primorsk oil loading port on the Gulf of Finland in the Leningrad region. About 60 million tons of oil pass through the port annually, which brings Russia about $ 15 billion, according to Ukrainian media. As a result of the attack, fires broke out on one of the ships in the port and at the pumping station, and oil shipments were suspended, sources say.
On the morning of September 12, the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, announced an attack on an oil tanker the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad region and a fire on one of the ships. He later clarified that the fire had been extinguished, including at the oil loading station. There is allegedly no threat of flooding and oil spill, he added.
