A Massive Fire At The Port Of Ust-Luga Near St. Petersburg Is Visible Even From Estonia
- 11.11.2026, 10:20
NASA has released some impressive photos taken from space.
NASA's Firms temperature anomaly tracking service recorded a major fire at the port of Ust-Luga in the Kingisepp District of the Leningrad Region.
Images from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), taken on November 11, detected a fresh thermal anomaly in the port. The satellites’ thermal sensors indicate several large-scale fire hotspots at once.
Earlier, some OSINT sources reported that not only the port itself but also a tanker moored nearby might be on fire.
There is no confirmation of this, but the governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenco, several hours after the first reports of the attack emerged, acknowledged that the attack had taken place and that a fire had broken out in Ust-Luga.
“Preliminary reports indicate that a UAV attack resulted in a strike in the port area of Ust-Luga, causing a fire; the necessary forces and resources have begun extinguishing it. There was also an emergency shutdown of a transformer substation in Ust-Luga. Further details are being clarified,” said Alexander Drozdzenko.
Half an hour before this post, he reported that 146 UAVs had been shot down over the Leningrad Region and that “combat operations” were still ongoing.
The fire in Ust-Luga is so intense that it can even be seen from Estonia.
The Port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Region—What Is Known
The Port of Ust-Luga is one of Russia’s largest commercial seaports on the Baltic Sea, located in the Kingisepp District of the Leningrad Region, on the Gulf of Finland, and has been in operation since 2001. It has 46 berths, and the total designed throughput capacity of its terminals is approximately 176.6 million metric tons of cargo per year.
Main cargoes: oil and petroleum products, coal, liquefied gas, chemical products, fertilizers, sulfur, and containers. Ust-Luga is connected to the Russian railway network, including via the major Luzhskaya junction.
The port is of great importance to the Russian military-industrial complex, as it is through this port that oil and petroleum products are exported, the revenues from which finance the Russian military machine.