The Primorsk oil terminal in the Baltic Sea has restored the shipment of oil. After the APU attack on Friday, at least five tankers were loaded on it at the weekend. But, obviously, the restoration work continues.
On Friday night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked an oil terminal in Primorsk drones. The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, wrote in the telegram channel about the fire at the pumping station and on the ship, which were promptly extinguished.
"I thank the special forces of the Security Service of Ukraine, who recently worked very efficiently in Primorsk. Russia's largest oil terminal in the Baltic Sea. There is significant damage, everything has been checked," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
Obviously, there is damage to the terminal, but it restores work much faster than the APU would like. The loading of tankers resumed on Saturday, and since that time at least five tankers have been loaded with oil and oil products.
So, the sanctioned Walrus received up to 163 thousand tons of oil and has already left the Gulf of Finland. Also, the Samos tanker received a cargo of raw materials, up to 149 thousand tons. He is still standing next to the terminal.
At the same time, oil products were loaded by three tankers — Fidan, Primorye and Chiba.
Two more vessels, Jagger and Angi, were loaded onto the terminal itself. According to AIS vessels, another oil tanker is planning to receive a shipment today.
At the same time, one berth at the terminal is obviously not in use yet, and the Kusto and Cai Yun tankers loaded during the attack are still standing at the terminal. Judging by the AIS data, Cai Yun is not loaded. The third tanker, the Phosphor oil product, is loaded with fuel and went to the anchorage to Ust-Luga. Some tankers make such a route before leaving for the flight.
As reported by EADaily, the constant attacks by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian refineries and the Druzhba oil pipeline led to unscheduled repairs of factories and jumps in wholesale prices on the stock exchange. This does not affect the combat capability of the Russian army. At the same time, Kiev's goal may not even be a war of attrition — to organize fuel outages in Russia, a decline in exports and some social unrest. Washington's pressure aimed at an early peaceful settlement pushes Kiev to take action in order to provoke an even tougher response from Russia, which can be interpreted as Moscow's own unwillingness to negotiate, experts believe. In their opinion, the retaliatory strikes of the Russian army are testing Ukraine for strength, but in Kiev would like something more powerful and tragic.