Ukraine attacks Russian oil-exporting infrastructure

27-Mar-2026

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Russia has stepped up assaults in Ukraine’s east in what may be the start of a spring offensive, and launched an air assault of record size against Ukraine’s western cities.

Ukraine has responded with strikes against the Ust-Luga and Primorsk oil export terminals in the Baltic Sea, severing as much as 40 percent of Russian oil export revenue – equivalent to 2 million barrels of oil a day, Al Jazeera reports.

It is the most severe oil supply disruption in the modern history of Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, Reuters reported.

Ukraine attacked Russian oil-exporting infrastructure on March 23 and 24.

Ukraine’s General Staff said drones struck an oil tank farm and oil loading pier at the Transneft-Port Primorsk oil terminal in Primorsk, west of St Petersburg. Satellite footage suggested at least five of the 18 tanks were damaged.

The General Staff also said drones had struck the Ust-Luga oil offloading platform in the Baltic Sea on the night of March 24.

Posted footage showed both Primorsk and Ust-Luga in flames.