A “massive” Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg in Russia has killed at least one person and injured five others, the city’s governor said on Sunday. Alexandre Beglov said firefighters were battling blazes at the St Petersburg oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district south of the city. The governor said several residential buildings were also hit, along with two houses.
City authorities said the attack disrupted flights at St Petersburg’s main airport, one of the country’s busiest, which was restricting operations “for safety reasons”, Beglov said. Russian e-commerce company Ozon said there was a fire at its logistics hub in St Petersburg, and the internet company VK said its data centre in the Leningrad region had been attacked by drones, adding that normal services were available to users. The governor of the Leningrad region surrounding St Petersburg, Alexander Drozdenko, said 145 drones had been shot down and about 20,000 people were without electricity following the drone raid.
Russia’s state-run news agency TASS said the attack was the largest on the region in the last four years. Moscow’s defence ministry said 1,015 Ukrainian drones were neutralised overnight. In Ukraine, Russian forces struck residential buildings overnight, killing two people and injuring 12, including two children, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X on Sunday.
All necessary services are working at the site,” he said. Zelenskyy told the British newspaper the Financial Times this week that Kyiv was “done” with an “energy ceasefire” unilaterally declared by United States President Donald Trump and would resume strikes on Russia in retaliation for a wave of attacks. Trump announced an immediate “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine last week, but Zelenskyy said Moscow continued to violate the deal.
Zelenskyy also said that the main targets of Moscow’s recent strikes were energy facilities, as the Russians were trying to “cause a blackout”. Trump is also facing criticism in both Europe and the US after he signed an executive order on Friday to waive sanctions and tariffs targeting Moscow’s energy revenues. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Trump’s waiver would be a pause to “analyse” their impact on the global economy.
Trump said late on Saturday his decision would benefit the US.
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