Drone Attacks Hit Russian Energy Sites, Disrupting Oil Exports

0:00It's April 5th. You're listening to U.S. News Today, AI-powered coverage from across America. I'm Cory with the story. Russian authorities reported fresh hits on their energy sites this weekend. At the Primorce Port on the Baltic Sea, a fuel reservoir leaked after Shrapnel from a drone strike. Meanwhile, the North Sea oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod caught fire when two facilities there got damaged in another drone attack. Morsk is a major oil export hub that handles up to 1 million barrels per day. Officials first thought a pipeline was hit, but clarified it was just a storage tank. Last month, drone strikes already knocked out about 40% of its storage capacity. Ukraine's ramped up these attacks over the past month to hit Russia's main cash cow and weaken its war machine. At one point recently, around 40% of Russia's overall oil export power was offline from similar strikes, pipeline issues, and tanker grabs. North Sea ranks as Russia's fourth biggest refinery, processing about 320,000 barrels daily

1:03and cranking out the second most, gasoline. The fire damage to power station and some nearby houses, but no one got hurt based on early reports. With alerts popping up at places like Novorosius on the Black Sea, oil shipments there grind to a halt during threats. These strikes keep piling pressure on Russia's fuel flow, and we'll see how they bounce back from this latest round.