Russia’s Baltic ports suspend oil and fuel exports after drone attacks, sources say

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‌Russia’s Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports on the Baltic ​Sea suspended oil and fuel loadings on March 22 following drone attacks, two sources said on Monday. A ‌fuel reservoir ‌at ​Primorsk ‌caught ⁠fire ​after a ⁠drone attack, Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of the northwestern Leningrad region, said on the Telegram ⁠messaging app on ‌Monday.
Ust-Luga ‌was closed ​due to ‌a drone alert ‌in the area, the sources said.
Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports are both ‌located in the Leningrad region and handle ⁠the ⁠majority of crude oil and fuel exports from Russia’s west.
Oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, which operates both ports, did not immediately reply to a ​request ​for comment.