Adedokun Waliyu 
Russia’s Ust-Luga port, one of its largest petroleum export outlets, was damaged on Sunday in a Ukrainian drone attack that sparked a fire, Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of the northern Leningrad region said on Telegram.
A total of 36 drones were shot down over the region, Drozdenko said.
Ust-Luga, operated by Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft (TRNF_p.MM), opens new tab, handles around 700,000 barrels per day of oil exports, and, according to sources, shipped 32.9 million metric tons of oil products in 2025.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis launched missiles at Israel on Saturday, their first such attack since the start of the Iran war.
Ukraine has regularly attacked Russian oil exporting facilities and oil refineries as it seeks to undermine Moscow’s war economy.
