Fires at the 12.5 million ton a year Petersburg Oil Terminal threaten to take roughly 300,000 BPD of export capacity offline at the Baltic port, which ships refined products such as diesel and gasoline rather than crude oil. The strike followed repeated US requests to spare Russian energy facilities amid an 80% rise in US diesel prices since January, while Moscow already maintains a ban on producer diesel exports through Oct. 31. Drones also ignited the nearby Ruchyi fuel depot, which holds 74,000 cubic meters of gasoline and diesel storage capacity.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas told Reuters that drones observed during the overnight raid "came from Poland," following air raid alerts in Lithuania and Latvia and reports that UAVs flew near Estonian and Latvian airspace. The broader attack, in which Russia's Defense Ministry claimed to intercept 1,015 drones across multiple regions, temporarily closed airports in Moscow and St. Petersburg, cut power to 20,000 people after hitting the 330 kV Vostochnaya substation, and set fire to a 79,000 square meter Ozon warehouse and a VK data center housing more than 20,000 servers.