Ukraine attacks spark fire at Russian port: Governor

Ukrainian attacks sparked a fire at a major north-western port in Russia and damaged energy infrastructure in a region bordering Ukraine, Russian authorities said on Wednesday.

"A fire is being brought under control at the port of Ust-Luga," said Alexander Drozdenko, governor of Russia's western Leningrad region, adding no casualties had been reported.

Drozdenko did not specify which part of the port had been hit. The facility is a hub for Russian exports, including fertilisers, oil and coal.


On Monday, Ukraine had struck and caused a fire at the port of Primorsk, also located near the Finnish border in north-west Russia.

Further south in the border region of Belgorod, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Wednesday disruptions to electricity and water had been reported after a Ukrainian rocket attack.

"Serious damage has been caused to energy infrastructure facilities," he posted on X.

Russia had fired nearly 1,000 drones at Ukraine in 24 hours on Tuesday and unleashed one of its biggest-ever daytime attacks, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russia's "absolute depravity" after the attack which killed at least three people and damaged the UNESCO heritage site of Lviv.

A third round of US-brokered talks between Moscow and Kyiv aimed at ending the four-year war has been derailed by conflict in the Middle East.

Ukraine sent a delegation to the United States last weekend in a bid to revive the negotiation process, but the effort yielded no immediate result.