One Dead, Five Injured as Ukrainian Drones Strike St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said one person was killed and five injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Sunday. Fires broke out at an oil terminal, an oil depot and industrial warehouses.
Ukrainian drones attacked St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, on Sunday, October 18. Governor Alexander Beglov said one person was killed and five were injured. The strike came during the Russia-Ukraine war, in which Ukraine regularly sends drones at targets inside Russia.
Fires at infrastructure sites
Beglov said fires broke out at the St. Petersburg oil terminal, an oil depot and industrial warehouses. The source gives no further detail on the extent of the damage.
Ozon, a Russian e-commerce company, said its logistics hub in St. Petersburg was on fire. VK, a Russian internet company, said drones had attacked its data center in the Leningrad region. It added that services remained available to users as normal.
Russian figures on downed drones
Russia's Defense Ministry said air defense units shot down 1,015 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight. The figure comes from the Russian side and is not independently confirmed in the source.
St. Petersburg is in northwestern Russia, and the fires at oil infrastructure sites are among the main consequences of the attack reported by local authorities.
