A fire broke out at a natural gas terminal in the port of Ust-Luga, in the Baltic, the regional governor announced in the early hours of today.

The facility, located 110 kilometers west of St. Petersburg, near the border with Estonia, is operated by Novatek, Russia’s largest natural gas producer.

There are “no injuries” due to “a fire at the Novatek terminal in Ust-Luga port” as “staff hastily evacuated,” the head of the Leningrad region authorities, Alexander Drazdienka, said via Telegram, accompanying the post with a short video that depicts a huge fire and smoke rising.

“A high level of alert has been declared in the Kingisepski region,” where the port falls, he added.

According to Novatek’s website, the complex in Ust Luga converts natural gas into naphtha, jet fuel and ship fuel components.

The emergency response ministry and the fire department in the area are working to extinguish the fire, added regional governor Drazdienka.

According to Russian news agency TASS and some other Russian media, the cause of the fire is not known at this stage.

However, according to Russian media outlet Shot, local residents said they heard a drone flying and then explosions. Another media outlet, Fontanka, reported spotting at least two drones flying in the direction of St. Petersburg before the fire broke out. Baza, another Russian digital outlet said to have sources in, if not ties to, Russian intelligence services, uploaded video to Telegram showing flames rising into the sky at an industrial complex.

Russia and Ukraine frequently target each other’s infrastructure, launching strikes aimed at disrupting supply chains and damaging the opposing side’s morale as the two-year-old war shows no sign of ending. in the foreseeable future.

Last Friday, a drone struck a fuel storage facility in Bryansk, western Russia. Moscow blamed Kiev. On Thursday, a Ukrainian attack on a Russian oil terminal in the Baltic failed, according to Russian officials.