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Ukraine hits key Russian oil-loading port and 3 ‘shadow fleet’ tankers 51%
5/3/2026, 9:24:06 AM
Topics: Russia Ukraine War
Keywords: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine, Alexander Drozdenko, Oil And Gas Industry, Energy Industry, Baltic Sea, Drone Surveillance And Warfare, Russia Ukraine War, Sergei Sobyanin, Vasiliy Anokhin, Sanctions And Embargoes, Military Technology, Military And Defense, Ukraine Government, Meta Platforms Inc, Andrei Vorobyov
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Ukraine has launched a wave of strikes against Russia’s oil export infrastructure, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and three tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude.
A nighttime drone strike sparked a blaze at Russia’s largest oil exporting port on the Baltic Sea, according to Russian regional Gov.
Alexander Drozdenko.
The port of Primorsk lies over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from Ukraine.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had hit two tankers in the Black Sea that had been used to transport Russian oil in violation of Western sanctions.
According to Zelenskyy, Ukrainian drones also hit a Karakurt missile ship, a patrol boat, and a tanker belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow oil fleet, used to evade Western sanctions and price caps on Russian energy.
In a separate post earlier on Sunday, Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces had struck two more “shadow fleet” tankers near the entrance of the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
“These tankers were actively used to transport oil.
Now they won’t,” he said.
He added the operation was led by the chief of Ukraine’s general staff, Andrii Hnatov.
Moscow did not immediately acknowledge Zelenskyy’s claims regarding either strike.
Kyiv has recently stepped up its attacks on Russia’s oil export infrastructure.
Ukrainian officials argue that oil revenue directly funds Moscow’s full-scale invasion of the country, now in its fifth year.
Elsewhere, two people were killed and three others wounded as Russian drones struck Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s Emergency Service reported.
It said the attack damaged three residential buildings.
The drones also hit port infrastructure, causing a fire that was later extinguished by emergency teams, the emergency service reported.
Nighttime Russian strikes also wounded six people in the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine, the agency said.
A passenger bus transporting 40 children was damaged, but no one inside was injured, it added.
In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike west of Moscow killed a 77-year-old man, local Gov.
Andrei Vorobyov reported on the Telegram messenger app.
He said the fatal attack occurred near the town of Volokolamsk, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) from central Moscow.
Vorobyov added that six drones were shot down in the Moscow region, which surrounds but does not include the Russian capital.
At least five more drones were downed on the approach to Moscow itself, according to mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Separately, in Russia’s western Smolensk region, a man, woman and child were injured after Ukrainian drone debris flew into an apartment block, according to local Gov.
Vasiliy Anokhin.
Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Sunday that a total of 334 Ukrainian UAVs were downed overnight over Russia and occupied Crimea.
Also overnight into Sunday, Russia attacked Ukraine with 269 drones and ballistic missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Ukrainian forces shot down and repelled 249 drones, while hits from ballistic missiles and 19 drones were recorded in 15 locations, the air force said in a Facebook update.
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