{"id":1375382,"date":"2026-03-29T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/strikes-on-russian-oil-ports-how-ukraine-managed-to-stage-a-deepstrike\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:40:55","slug":"strikes-on-russian-oil-ports-how-ukraine-managed-to-stage-a-deepstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/strikes-on-russian-oil-ports-how-ukraine-managed-to-stage-a-deepstrike\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking Deep: How Ukraine Took the War to Russia\u2019s Oil Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

I will comment on the strikes on the oil ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk in the Leningrad region on the Baltic Sea. And in general, why did we start to succeed in deep strikes, that is, strikes deep into the territory of the Russian Federation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the night of March 27, Ukrainian drones struck these ports for the third time in a week. Such consistency was made possible, among other things, thanks to middlestrikes\u2014strikes at medium distances. In particular, against enemy air defense assets deployed in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Middlestrike has become more active in recent months. Air defense complexes deployed in the occupied territories of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson regions, and Crimea are being destroyed. These are short-range air defense systems (up to 20 km)\u2014”Tor,” “Tunguska,” or “Osa”\u2014as well as large medium- or long-range systems (250\u2013300 km)\u2014S-300, S-300V, or S-400 (“Triumph”) air defense systems.<\/p>\n

When such systems are disabled, corridors are created in the air defense system through which our long-range drones and missiles can fly into Russian territory. An anti-aircraft missile system cannot be manufactured or repaired in one day.<\/p>\n\t\t