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Ust-Luga Fire Contained After Drone Strike

The attack injured port workers and cut power to a substation. The extent of the damage to export operations remains unclear.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 12

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Crews contained a fire at Ust-Luga on November 12, a day after a drone strike hit the Russian export port and injured three workers, according to Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of Leningrad Oblast. Firefighters and port crews were still working to extinguish the blaze when he issued his update.

47news reported that one …

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