attacks refineries, pipelines and ports in the Baltic

Ukraine has achieved an important victory by extend its drone attacks to Russia’s ports and infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. Until the 40% of oil export capacity Russia would be paralyzed after this operation, added to the interruption of the Druzhba pipeline and the seizure of oil tankers.

Ports, pipelines and oil tankers

Ukraine maintains that part of the Druzhba pipeline It was damaged by Russian attacks in late January. Slovakia and Hungary, for their part, have demanded that kyiv immediately resume supplies.

The Novorossiisk oil terminal, with the capacity to handle up to 700,000 barrels per dayhas been processing oil below expectations since damage suffered by a heavy Ukrainian drone attack earlier this month.

Furthermore, the frequent seizures of tankers linked to Russia’s illegal ‘ghost fleet’ in Europe have disrupted the export of about 300,000 barrels a day of arctic oil. These come from the port of Murmansk, according to market operators.

With its westward export routes under attack, Moscow must rely more on oil exports to Asian markets. The same operators point out that these routes are limited by their capacity.

Russia maintains uninterrupted supplies to China through pipelines Skovorodino-Mohe y Atasu-Alashankou. It also maintains maritime exports of ESPO (Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean) crude oil from the port of Kozmino.

Together, those three routes represent about 1.9 million barrels per day of oil. Russia also continues to load oil from Sakhalin, with shipments of about 250,000 barrels per day from the island, and supplies around 300,000 barrels per day to Belarus.