Aleksandr Drozdenko, governor of Russia’s Leningrad region, said 92 drones were shot down there on Nov. 11, a claim drawing attention to the area’s Baltic export ports and major refinery.
Drozdenko announced the count in a Telegram post. Reuters said it had not confirmed the figure through an independent check by publication time.
Reuters described the region’s Baltic network as serving Russian oil and grain trade, naming Ust-Luga, Primorsk and Vysotsk among the ports. The region lies northwest of Moscow, with the three ports on the Baltic Sea. Reuters also identified Kirishi as home to Russia’s second-largest refinery, operated by Surgutneftegaz.
Monday’s incident was a separate report: Reuters said a drone attack sparked a fire at the Kirishi refinery. EconoTimes previously covered Drozdenko’s report that drone debris killed a woman in Vsevolozhsk and that a fire was reported at refinery property in an earlier account of the fatal debris strike and refinery fire.
