MOSCOW: Ukraine fired drones at a key Russian oil port near the Finnish border on Monday, both Moscow and Kyiv said, triggering a huge fire at the facility.
Satellite images showed flames and thick plumes of black smoke rising into the air from the oil terminal in the Russian town of Primorsk, which sits on the Gulf of Finland and is about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the EU and NATO member.
Russia has been pummelling Ukraine with near-daily air strikes, repeatedly hitting its energy infrastructure and triggering blackouts that plunged millions into cold and darkness during the winter months.
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Ukraine has retaliated by launching drone attacks at Russia, mainly at Moscow’s energy and military facilities.
“A fuel tank was damaged in the port of Primorsk, causing a fire,” said Alexander Drozdenko, governor of Russia’s western Leningrad region. Drozdenko said Russian air defence systems had destroyed more than 70 drones over the region, which has not been a main front in Russia’s war with Ukraine.
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