Drone attack sets fires at St. Petersburg oil facilities

A large overnight drone attack struck infrastructure in St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region, setting fires at two oil facilities and a logistics centre and killing one person, according to Russian officials and companies. Five people were reported injured in St. Petersburg, while about 20,000 people in the wider region lost electricity. St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said fires broke out at the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot. He also reported fires at civilian infrastructure in several city districts and said one person had died and five were injured. The supplied reports do not establish the extent of damage or operational disruption at the oil facilities. Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko said around 20,000 people were in an electricity outage zone after the attack. He said about 144 to 150 drones were downed over the region, with the reported estimate varying as officials updated it. Those regional figures are distinct from the nationwide total claimed by Russia’s Defence Ministry, which said it neutralised 1,015 Ukrainian drones overnight. That ministry figure has not been independently verified in the supplied...