Novatek In Ust-Luga And A Shipyard In Vyborg Are On Fire In Russia
- 25.03.2026, 11:29
Consequences of a UAV attack on the Leningrad region.
On the night of March 25, Ukraine's drones flew 400 and 500 kilometers and reached two ports of the Russian Federation on the Baltic Sea coast, OSINTers' data show. Novatek's oil condensate processing plant in Ust-Luga and the Vybog shipyard came under attack, writes Focus.
What are the consequences of drones hitting two strategic Russian facilities?
The video of the hit in Ust-Luga shows two giant tanks in the port and damaged Novatek equipment, footage from Telegram channel Exilenova+ showed. Russia's Baltic port exported 650,000 barrels of oil and 150,000 barrels of gas condensate daily. The point of impact - in the middle of the site area of about 1 square kilometer, on which 60 tanks of different sizes rise. At the same time, the incident became known about 3 o'clock on March 25 and the video does not show the work of Russian air defense equipment.
The Telegram channel of OSINTer Dnipro Osint ⟨ Garbuz ⟩ states that the UAV hit a point with coordinates 59.711272847270244, 28.434770374426037. It is also noted that March 25 was not the first strike on the plant of PJSC Novatek-Ust-Luga, which ships Russian oil and processes gas condensate.
Another drone strike point is located north of Ust-Luga. The Exilenova+ channel wrote that the port in Vyborg is on fire: the photo from the scene shows a black column of smoke. In addition, there appeared footage of a damaged ship. According to the outlines of the ship OSINTers established that it may be a patrol icebreaker "Purga" of project 23550 (code name "Ermak"), which was built for border guards in the structure of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. "Purga" was standing at the berth of the Vyborg Shipyard, which was probably also hit by the UAV, analysts noted. Militarny Media specified that the patrol ship's weapons were an AK-176MA artillery gun, two AK-306M anti-aircraft artillery guns, four machine guns and MANPADS. It also emerged that the factory had an order for two such vessels, and one of them was damaged.
The Russian Defense Ministry on the morning of March 25 reported shooting down 359 Ukrainian drones that had been spotted over 13 Russian regions and over Crimea's VOT: how many flew as far as St. Petersburg was not specified. The governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko said that all 33 Ukrainian drones were allegedly successfully shot down over the region. At the same time, he confirmed that the port of Ust-Luga was on fire. The AFU General Staff has not yet confirmed the hitting of two strategic sites on the Baltic Sea coast. Both strike points are more than 500 kilometers away from Ukraine (in a straight line).