Drones hit the port zone of Ust-Luga overnight on 11 November, starting a fire and injuring three workers, Leningrad Oblast Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko wrote.

Ust-Luga is Russia’s largest Baltic port, and its oil terminals ship crude and refined products. Two days earlier, drones set fire to the Kirishi refinery, which fuels St. Petersburg. Every strike on Ust-Luga also reaches NATO’s doorstep: the port lies only about 30 km from the Estonian border.

Fire seen from Estonia

Drozdenko first wrote at 05:02 Kyiv time (the same in Finland and the Baltics) that, according to preliminary information, there had been a hit in the port zone. He added that a transformer substation had shut down. At 06:23, he wrote that the workers’ lives were not in danger. One was hospitalized with a shrapnel wound to the leg, regional official Nikita Dontsov told TASS, Lenta.ru reported.

NASA FIRMS data show two clusters of new heat detections on 11 November: a main one in the port and a smaller one about 8 km to the west-southwest. The area showed none in the previous month.

Estonian broadcaster ERR published images it says show the attack seen from Ida-Viru County.

As of 14:00, Ukraine’s General Staff had not commented. It confirmed the 1 September strike on the port’s Novatek complex the following day.

A record night for Leningrad Oblast

By Drozdenko’s claimed tally of 150 drones downed, it was the region’s largest attack, topping 145 on 18 October, Russian outlet Agentstvo Novosti noted. Restrictions at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport from 23:47 to 06:29 delayed more than 30 departures and about 20 arrivals, and two planes bound for the city landed in Helsinki, it added.

At 23:27 on 10 November, within a minute of Drozdenko’s drone-danger notice, Latvia’s National Armed Forces issued an orange alert for Ludza. It later raised orange alerts in Krāslava, Balvi, Aizkraukle, Madona, Cēsis, Smiltene and Gulbene.

In Lithuania, NATO fighters twice tried and failed to destroy a drone that had entered from Belarus, and one missile that missed was later found in the Biržai district, Defense Staff chief Giedrius Premeneckas told reporters, LRT reported. He said the drone then crossed Latvia and Estonia into Russia and could have been disrupted during Ukraine’s attack, though this was unconfirmed. Crisis center head Vilmantas Vitkauskas called Russian claims that Lithuania opens its airspace to Ukrainian drones a lie.

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At 02:09 and 02:15, Finland’s Defense Forces set temporary airspace and maritime restriction zones in the eastern Gulf of Finland, calling them a precaution to protect bystanders and counter potential drones. At 03:12, the Estonian Defense Forces warned of a possible air threat in six southern counties, and two northeastern ones at 03:45, ERR reported.