Russia's air defenses have proven to be less potent against small drones because they're meant to detect larger targets such as missiles and aircraft.
  • Oil and gas facilities in Russia have caught fire in recent weeks following suspected drone attacks.
  • In the latest attack, an oil refinery in the southwestern Volgograd region was ablaze on Saturday.
  • Russia’s air-defense systems have proven to be less effective against small drones.
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    Fires have broken out at several Russian energy infrastructure locations over the past few weeks following suspected drone strikes, including at a major oil refinery operated by Lukoil in the southwestern Volgograd region on Saturday.

    But the attack on the Baltic Ust-Luga terminal and bad weather in the region have helped disrupt Russia’s seaborne crude shipments, which fell to their lowest rate in almost two months, Bloomberg reported.

    If the attack is confirmed to have been carried out by Ukraine, it would show Kyiv can hit targets deeper inside Russian territory than usual with what are thought to be domestically produced drones, Reuters reported.

    To add insult to injury, a military source claimed that Ukraine sent a drone flying over President Vladimir Putin’s palace during an attack on a St. Petersburg oil depot.

    En route, one of the drones that flew 775 miles into Russian airspace traveled over one of Putin’s palaces in Valdai, an unnamed special-services source told the Ukrainian news agency RBC.

    Hammes, a research fellow at the National Defense University, wrote that small, low-cost drones with a minimal bomb load could wreak havoc if used against flammable targets.

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