Attack on Ust-Lug: One of the largest ports of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea struck the drones of the SBU-the media

Petersburg and successfully struck the goal. In particular, the video can see the work of the drone - it involves in a container with gas condensate. From the explosion, one container received significant damage, and three adjacent fragments of the explosion. According to experts, they will be repaired at least a month with the presence of all materials. This will lead to the work of the whole terminal.

At the time of writing the material, the Security Service of Ukraine did not comment on the attack on the port of the Russian Federation. According to the head of the Center for Combating Misinformation Andriy Kovalenko, the Ust-Luzsky Port plays a key role for Russia in the conditions of war against Ukraine and general geopolitical tensions. After the imposition of sanctions, it became a logistics hub to bypass them.

These are some export points of Russian oil, coal and other resources, the income of which goes to finance the war. The port is located at a strategically important point in the Baltic Sea, which allows Russia not only to provide a naval presence in the region, but also to make Ust-lug an alternative to European routes. This is the place where the shadow port comes from, the main access to international markets.

It is in the Ust-Lug of the port that goods are passed to Asian countries, including China and India. Also, thanks to the port, Russia preserves the opportunity to press on the Baltic countries, Poland and other countries in the region and to control strategic maritime transport. In fact, according to Andrei Kovalenko, the port became an instrument of economic and military survival of the Russian Federation in the conditions of isolation.

We will remind, on January 4, unknown UAV attacked the most deep-water port of the Baltic Sea of ​​Ust-Lug in the Leningrad region of the Russian Federation. At that time, Russian sources argued that windows were damaged in one of the buildings on the territory of the port, and OSINT researchers noted that a complex of fractionation and transshipment of stable gas condensate was hit. The governor of Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko called this day a record in the number of UAV destroyed.