Ukrainian strikes hit key Russian oil infrastructure, including "shadow fleet" tankers

Key Points:

• Ukrainian drones targeted key Russian oil infrastructure on Sunday, including the Primorsk port in the Baltic Sea and multiple tankers allegedly used to illegally transport Russian crude oil, aiming to disrupt Russia's oil exports and sanctions evasion.
• The Primorsk port, Russia's largest oil exporting facility on the Baltic Sea and responsible for a significant portion of Russia's oil exports, was struck at night causing a fire but no reported oil spill; Ukrainian President Zelenskyy confirmed damage to military and oil infrastructure, including a missile ship and shadow fleet tankers.
• Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russian oil export facilities to reduce Moscow's war funding, with recent strikes also hitting tankers near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, though Moscow has not confirmed these claims.
• Russian drone strikes on Ukraine's Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions resulted in multiple casualties and damage to residential buildings and infrastructure, while Ukrainian drone attacks near Moscow killed a civilian and caused injuries from debris.
• Both sides reported heavy drone and missile activity overnight, with Russia claiming to have downed hundreds of Ukrainian UAVs and Ukraine reporting repulsion of most Russian drones and missile attacks across multiple locations.