A Swedish reconnaissance aircraft is actively monitoring the Russian border, focusing on the area near St. Petersburg, data from the flight-tracking platform Flightradar24 confirmed.
Observers noted that the surveillance flight was launched immediately following a Ukrainian drone strike on the port of Ust-Luga in Russia’s Leningrad region.
Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga for the fifth time in 10 days, and industry sources said an oil loading terminal was hit, likely adding to Russia's difficulties in exporting crude.
Kyiv has stepped up attacks on Russia's oil export infrastructure over the past month, launching its heaviest drone strikes of the more than four-year war against the Baltic ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk.
By Vafa Guliyeva
