Ukraine Strikes Ust-Luga Baltic Oil Port With 54 Drones, Damaging Two Processing Plants

Ukraine's Defense Forces struck Russia's Ust-Luga oil export terminal in Leningrad Oblast overnight on August 14 with a wave of 54 long-range drones, sparking a fire and damaging two processing plants according to Ukraine's General Staff. Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed damage and a fire at the port, which was extinguished within hours. It was at least the sixth Ukrainian strike on Ust-Luga — one of Russia's largest Baltic Sea oil-export hubs — in 2026 alone, part of Kyiv's sustained campaign against Russian energy export infrastructure.