Ukrainian drones strike Primorsk oil terminal and halt Baltic loading

Ukrainian drones struck Russia's largest Baltic oil terminal at Primorsk and multiple energy facilities early on Friday, in one of the largest crossborder assaults since the fullscale war began, setting vessels and a pumping station alight and prompting authorities to suspend loading at the port, industry sources and Ukrainian military officials said. Moscow said it shot down more than 200 drones in a wide raid that triggered explosions and disrupted air traffic in the Leningrad and other regions.

The Russian Defence Ministry said it intercepted 221 Ukrainian drones across several regions, with the bulk destroyed over Bryansk and Smolensk. Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region, wrote on Telegram that fires at a vessel and a pumping station in Primorsk were extinguished and that there was no risk of oil spills or flooding. Reuters and Bloomberg, citing two industry sources and Ukrainian military officials, reported that Primorsk was forced to suspend loading operations after the strike.

A source in Ukraine's Security Service, the SBU, told a Ukrainian outlet that the service carried out strikes on Primorsk and on several pumping stations that feed other Baltic...