Primorsk takes the torch from Tuapse: NASA satellites confirm fresh fires at Russia's largest Baltic oil export terminal

Source: Euromaidan Press

Ukrainian drones struck Russia's largest Baltic oil export terminal at Primorsk overnight on 2-3 May 2026, igniting fires that NASA satellites confirmed at the port — Leningrad Oblast governor Aleksandr Drozdenko later acknowledged the strike, calling Primorsk "the key target" of the attack. The strike ends nearly a month of relative quiet at Primorsk and follows the fourth consecutive Ukrainian drone strike on Rosneft's refinery and oil export complex in Tuapse on the Black Sea coast on 1 May.

Russia's two largest Baltic oil export ports, Primorsk and Ust-Luga, together handle about 2 million barrels of Russian crude per day — roughly 40% of Russia's seaborne oil exports.Both lie roughly 900-1,000 km from the Ukrainian border. Ukraine's deep-strike campaign on Russia's oil infrastructure has pushed Russian refinery output to multi-year lows.

What happened overnight

Ukrainian Telegram monitoring channel Exilenova+ shared early-morning footage of a Liutyi-looking strike drone flying through a residential area of Leningrad Oblast in dark skies, captioned simply: "Leningrad Oblast." Another monitoring channel, Supernova+, posted footage at 03:56 showing a fire in a field and an apparent anti-aircraft engagement, with the channel commenting that air defenses were active in the region and "the ports are under attack."

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