Oil storage tanks continue burning in Russia's Primorsk after strike – video

Oil storage tanks in the port of Primorsk in Russia's Leningrad Oblast are still on fire following a drone attack.

Source: Astra and other Telegram channels

Details: Reports indicate that as of Monday evening, the oil tanks in the port of Primorsk continued to burn after the previous night's attack.

Astra said that this was confirmed by eyewitness video footage, which the channel geolocated. The footage was filmed from the shore of the Gulf of Finland on the evening of 23 March, around sunset.

In addition, NASA FIRMS satellite imagery showed signs of fire across the entire oil storage facility at the port of Primorsk. The images indicated that at least four tanks were on fire.

Background:

• On the night of 22-23 March, authorities in Leningrad Oblast reported a large-scale drone attack and a fire at the port of Primorsk. Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko said a fuel storage tank had been damaged and later claimed that more than 50 drones had been shot down over the region.
• Ukraine's General Staff confirmed that Ukraine's defence forces had struck an oil terminal at the port of Primorsk in Leningrad Oblast as well as the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil refinery in Ufa. Fires broke out at both facilities.

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