{"id":1463622,"date":"2026-11-11T09:32:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1463622"},"modified":"2026-11-11T09:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:32:25","slug":"drones-attacked-the-port-of-ust-luga-in-the-leningrad-region-a-fire-broke-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drones-attacked-the-port-of-ust-luga-in-the-leningrad-region-a-fire-broke-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones attacked the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region: a fire broke out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A large-scale fire broke out in the area of the Ust-Luga commercial seaport on the Baltic Sea in the Leningrad Region of Russia on the night of Wednesday, November 11. Local authorities confirmed that drones had hit the port area and caused the fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/astrapress\/130735\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> ASTRA.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of a large-scale fire in the Kingisepp district of the Leningrad region have appeared online. Before that, the region was warned of a threat of a UAV attack, and local residents reported explosions and air defense operations.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?24\" data-telegram-post=\"astrapress\/130735\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>ASTRA OSINT analysts noted that they were unable to independently verify the released footage. At the same time, local residents reported a fire near the port.<\/p>\n<p>The Exilenova+ Telegram channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/exilenova_plus\/34396\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> that the fire in the port area of Ust-Luga was visible even from the territory of Estonia.<\/p>\n<h3>What is known about the port of Ust-Luga?<\/h3>\n<p>Ust-Luga is one of Russia&#8217;s largest commercial seaports on the Baltic Sea. It is located in the Gulf of Finland, approximately 100\u2013150 km from St. Petersburg, and is one of Russia&#8217;s key export hubs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The port began operating in 2001. Its terminals handle oil, petroleum products, coal, sulfur, mineral fertilizers, gas condensate, liquefied natural gas, and containerized cargo. The facility is of significant economic and strategic importance for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on September 1, a fire also broke out in the port area of Ust-Luga after a drone attack. In addition, on August 14, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the destruction of the NOVATEK-Ust-Luga complex in the Leningrad region.<\/p>\n<h3>What the local authorities said<\/h3>\n<p>The Governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, confirmed that a UAV had hit the port area of Ust-Luga and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Previously, as a result of the UAV attack, there was a hit in the port area of Ust-Luga, a fire occurred, the necessary forces and means began extinguishing it. There was also an emergency shutdown of the transformer substation in Ust-Luga. Further information is being clarified,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Drozdenko, 146 drones were shot down over the territory of the Leningrad region. At the time of his report, combat operations were still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-novhorodskiy-oblasti-rf-prohrymily-vybukhy-v-rayoni-aviazavodu-shcho-vidomo\/\">explosions were heard in Staraya Russa, Novgorod Oblast, Russia, on the night of November 10.<\/a> The 123rd Aviation Repair Plant, where Il-76 and Il-78 military transport aircraft are maintained and modernized, was probably hit.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large-scale fire broke out in the area of the Ust-Luga commercial seaport on the Baltic Sea in the Leningrad Region of Russia on the night of Wednesday, November 11. Local authorities confirmed that drones had hit the port area and caused the fire. This is reported by ASTRA. Videos of a large-scale fire in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1463617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1463622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463623,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463622\/revisions\/1463623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}