'Loading Disrupted': Occupants Left Without Fuel After Strike On Ust-Luga

And are forced to redeploy air defence systems from the front.

In the early morning of January 21, several drones attacked the Ust-Luga Oil terminal in Leningrad Region. The media confirmed the information about the "attack," while the Russian Defence Ministry claimed that there were no attacks in the area. In the evening of January 21, it became known that the Ust-Luga Oil terminal (one of the newest and most important terminals in Russia) had stopped working, Dialog reported.

The Ukrainian "Cargo 200" TG-channel writes that the terminal in the Baltic Sea works for export, but also supplies fuel to Russian troops. After the drone raid, all tankers that were at the terminal moved far out to sea. Their loading has been disrupted. "This SSU attack has caused not only significant material but also image damage to the Russian Federation. Now, according to our sources, the Russians are forced to move even more air defence installations from the front to protect the rear," the report said.

The Russian "Mash on Moika" TG-channel writes that after the strike on Novatek Ust-Luga, a high alert regime was declared at critical infrastructure facilities in Leningrad region. Law enforcers were ordered to destroy all UAVs in the neighbouring territories.

However, blogger Anatoly Nesmiyan is not convinced of the success of the Russian security forces' fight against aerial targets: "In general, as it turned out, the entire programme of rearmament of the army, on which nearly a trillion dollars were spent, has almost all gone somewhere. Mostly on cartoons of 2018 that have no analogues and on the dubbing of American YouTube videos into Russian. And now, the occupiers are not able to fight with small-sized aerial targets, so the drones have no problem passing more than a thousand kilometres over the "sacral territory" and hitting the targets accurately, although the aggressor's defence department constantly assures that all AFU targets have been hit.

The port of Ust-Luga is one of the two main energy export markets in the Baltic Sea. It is located about 130 kilometres southwest of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's hometown, and near the border with Estonia. We remind you that a fire started after the terminal was hit in Leningrad Region.