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Ust-Luga oil terminal burns after Ukrainian drone attack, Sun reports

The report says the strike knocked out a transformer substation at the Baltic export hub, before turning to combat footage from elsewhere in the war.

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Russia’s Baltic port of Ust-Luga ablaze after overnight Ukrainian drone attack

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0:00The Sun reports a drone attack and substation outage at Ust-Luga, accompanying footage of nighttime fires.
1:32A residential building burns in Smolensk region; the report links the damage to a Ukrainian drone attack.
2:18The report identifies an aerial strike as a Ukrainian Su-27 attack on a Russian drone command post.
2:34Cockpit and drone-camera sequences show what the report identifies as interceptions of Russian airborne targets.
3:15Ukrainian units present footage of attacks on military equipment and report equipment losses and monthly interception totals.
5:20The final sequences show reported strikes on supply trucks, drone operators and a TOS-1A system in occupied Ukraine.

Fires and explosions light the night sky in footage that The Sun identifies as the aftermath of a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Ust-Luga oil export terminal.

The newspaper reports that multiple drones struck the terminal overnight, causing a fire and knocking out a transformer substation. Ust-Luga lies west of Saint Petersburg, near the Estonian border, on the Gulf of Finland. The Sun describes the port as one of Russia's most important energy export hubs.

The upload is a compilation rather than a report confined to the port. It next shows a residential building burning in Russia's Smolensk region, which the report says was damaged amid a Ukrainian drone attack. A civilian can be heard warning others to move away from the windows.

Later sequences show what The Sun identifies as a Ukrainian Su-27 strike on a Russian drone command post, followed by cockpit and drone-camera footage of airborne interceptions. The compilation also carries Ukrainian military footage presented as attacks on Russian armour and supply vehicles.

The distinction between footage and reported results matters throughout: equipment-loss estimates and interception totals shown on screen are attributed to Ukrainian units. The closing sections move to strikes that the report places in occupied Luhansk, Berdyansk and Donetsk, well beyond the Baltic port named in the title.

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