Local authorities are planning to move the transshipment of nitrate outside the city, presumably to Ust-Luga.
According to the newspaper, this means the loss of 3 million tons of cargo per year for the port of St. Petersburg.
"For the port, which is already in a difficult position due to the loss of trade operations with Europe, this is a rather significant blow," Kommersant writes.
Ust-Luga is being considered as a new site for the transshipment of nitrate. According to the newspaper, the town is, however, not ready to receive nitrate at the moment, as the port needs to modernize its infrastructure.
Attacks on Russian refineries
Recently, Ukraine’s SBU security service has successfully attacked at least 12 oil refineries in Russia, Reuters reported on March 17, citing a source in the intelligence service.
This figure does not take into account the operations of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (HUR), which also carries out strikes on Russian refineries using drones.
According to the CEO of Gunvor Group Ltd. Torbjörn Törnqvist, Russia has lost about 600,000 barrels of daily refining capacity as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes.
A fire broke out at one of the plants in the city of Slaviansk-na-Kubani in Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation as a result of a drone attack overnight on March 16-17.
Several Russian refineries in different regions have been attacked by drones over the past week. Ukrainian intelligence and the SBU confirmed their involvement in some of these attacks in comments to NV.
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A fire broke out at two refineries in Russia’s Samara Oblast overnight on March 15-16, and Russian media reported that it was a drone attack.
Drones attacked the Voronezh, Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Leningrad, and Lipetsk oblasts of Russia overnight on March 12-13, as well as an oil refinery in Ryazan, where a serious fire broke out.
Drones attacked the Kursk, Belgorod, Tula, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Bryansk, Leningrad, Oryol oblasts of Russia overnight on March 11-12, as well as Moscow. In the city of Oryol, explosions were heard near an oil depot where a fire broke out. A Lukoil oil depot in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was also ablaze.
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Section: Nation
Author: Богуслав Романенко
