A drone strike hit the port area of Ust-Luga along the Baltic Sea, sparking a large fire as emergency crews worked to extinguish the flames.
Leningrad region Aleksandr Drozdenko stated on Telegram that the drone strike impacted the port area and caused a fire, according to SIOL.
The aerial assault disrupted regional aviation operations. These warnings were subsequently canceled, with the final alerts lifted in the morning across the Baltic states.
Further strikes have targeted major petroleum processing facilities deep within Russian territory. On November 9, a drone attack hit Russia’s second-largest oil refinery in the town of Kirishi near Saint Petersburg, situated approximately 800 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. That facility, known as the KINEF refinery, experienced multiple powerful explosions and a fire that local authorities said was extinguished.
NASA FIRMS satellite systems detected multiple thermal anomalies over the complex, and the British newspaper The Guardian reported that a woman was killed by falling drone debris. Aleksandr Drozdenko said that Russian air defense systems shot down a total of 113 Ukrainian drones during the attack. The Kirishi plant has an annual processing capacity of 21 million tons, representing about seven percent of Russia’s total oil refining capacity.
Earlier, on November 3, Ukrainian forces conducted a drone strike against the large Slavneft-JANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl, located about 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow. Local residents and OSINT analyses confirmed three separate fires broke out within the industrial zone following loud explosions. On November 2, Ukrainian drones struck a major oil transport hub in Russia's Samara region, hitting a linear production and dispatch station belonging to the state pipeline operator Transneft.