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Ukrainian Drones Strike St. Petersburg Oil Terminals, Killing 1 and Injuring 5
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Drones hit St. Petersburg oil terminal, oil depot, and VKontakte data center, causing multiple fires. Casualties include at least one dead and five injured, with power outages affecting thousands.
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St Petersburg hit by drones
Ukrainian drones struck St. Petersburg’s fuel and logistics infrastructure early Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring five others, according to city governor Alexandre Beglov.
Beglov said firefighters were battling blazes at the St Petersburg oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district, and he added that several residential buildings were also hit along with two houses.
Alexander Drozdenko said 145 drones had been shot down and about 20,000 people were without electricity following the drone raid, while Russia’s defence ministry said 1,015 Ukrainian drones were neutralised overnight.
Zelenskyy said Russian forces struck residential buildings overnight in Ukraine, killing two people and injuring 12 including two children, and he wrote that over this past week the Russians attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles.
Targets include VK and Ozon
Russian authorities said Ukrainian drones hit the fuel terminal, a VKontakte data center and a logistics center of the online marketplace Ozon, and the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed it shot down 1,015 unmanned aerial vehicles from 8 p.m. Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday.
Alexander Beglov said the Ministry of Emergency Situations continued to extinguish fires at the Petersburg Oil Terminal, the Ruchyi oil depot, and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district, and he reported one person died and several others were injured.
The Kyiv Independent reported that Ukrainian monitoring channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ said the “massive” drone attack began at 2:50 a.m. local time, and it said the facility was engulfed in flames in videos shared by St. Petersburg residents.
Ozon said its logistics hub in St. Petersburg was on fire, while VK said its data center in the Leningrad region had been attacked by drones and added that services were available to users as normal.
Power cuts and flight disruption
St. Petersburg’s main airport, Pulkovo, faced disruption as city authorities said the attack disrupted flights and that operations were restricting “for safety reasons”, while UNN said Pulkovo Airport suspended operations and that 15 flights were canceled and 25 delayed due to the drones.
UNN said more than 20,000 people in the Leningrad region were left without electricity, and it quoted Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko saying the disconnection of two transformer substations in Yanino was ongoing and that 50 apartment buildings, home to around 20,000 people, were in the affected area.
The Kyiv Independent said the drone assault extended across the administrative boundary into the Leningrad region, and it reported that damage to a power substation triggered emergency power cuts.
The Moscow Times said Russian air defense units downed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, and it added that fires broke out at the St. Petersburg oil terminal, an oil depot and industrial warehouses while Ozon reported its logistics hub was on fire.