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Ukraine Launches More Than 1,000 Drones, Igniting St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and Ruchi Depot
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Ukraine launched over 1,000 drones across Russia, hitting St. Petersburg oil terminal and Ruchi depot. At least one person killed and five injured in the St. Petersburg strikes.
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Drone strike hits oil
Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia, setting fires at the St Petersburg oil terminal and the Ruchi oil depot and injuring five people after the attack killed at least one person, according to St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov. Beglov said firefighters were battling fires sparked by Sunday’s attacks on the St Petersburg oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpinsky district south of the city. The Russian Defense Ministry said it neutralised 1,015 Ukrainian drones overnight over 15 Russian regions, the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the Black Sea.
Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko said 145 drones had been shot down and about 20,000 people were without electricity following the drone raid. Ozon said there was a fire at its logistics hub in St Petersburg, and VK said drones attacked its data centre in the broader Leningrad region while normal services were available to users.
Trump and Zelenskyy clash
President Donald Trump accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the conflict, and Trump said he was “in the process of negotiating Peace in the ,” while adding that Zelenskyy “doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.” Zelenskyy told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that waiving sanctions against Russia would strengthen Putin’s war effort, and he said U.S.-Ukraine intelligence sharing had resumed after being “blocked for some period of time.” Trump defended his Friday decision to put a hold on implementing new sanctions on Russia, saying he did not want to do anything that would “foolishly” drive Moscow “away from the bargaining table”.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian state news agency Tass that Kyiv was “resisting” Moscow’s invasion but could not “change the current course of events.” Zelenskyy later wrote on X that Russia had attacked Ukraine’s energy, oil and gas sectors 76 times in the week since Trump’s announcement of an “energy ceasefire,” while accusing Russia of trying to “cause a blackout.”
Wider war stakes
In Ukraine, a Russian air strike killed a woman in Kyiv overnight while also hitting a subway station and damaging a 25-storey residential building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram on Monday. Two Russian attacks on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed a woman and wounded at least two other people, including a six-year-old girl, local officials said on Sunday. Zelenskyy said Russia’s strikes on residential buildings had killed two people and injured 12, including two children, in Volyn, and he added that “This morning, there was a strike on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn.”
Ukraine said it had resumed attacks on Russian oil facilities after a three-day pause, and it accused Russia of continuing to attack Ukraine’s power grid. The sources also tied the St Petersburg drone raid to the diplomatic dispute between Kyiv and Washington, with Trump criticizing Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure and the prospect of further U.S. sanctions against Moscow still uncertain.