The Ukrainian Defense Forces targeted a maritime oil terminal responsible for transshipping products from the Tuapse Oil Refinery, as well as an oil tanker moored at the facility.
The port of Tuapse is one of the main facilities for oil exports from southern Russia. Damage there could disrupt supply logistics and increase risks for maritime transport in the region.
This was the second Russian provocation on September 19th, after three Russian MiG-31 interceptors entered Estonian airspace without permission in the morning near Vaindloo Island and remained there for almost 12 minutes.
On the night of September 12th, drones attacked Russia’s largest oil terminal, the Port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea, located in the Leningrad region.
A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker loaded a cargo from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project last week, making it the sixth loading from the plant so far this year, according to shiptracking data from analytics firms Kpler and Vortexa.
It was launched on June 14, 2022. In October-November 2023, it was transported via Russia’s inland waterways to the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg for completion.
