Drone attack sets fires at St. Petersburg oil sites

A major overnight drone attack on St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region set fires at two oil facilities, killed one person and injured five, according to regional officials. The strikes also hit commercial and digital infrastructure and left about 20,000 people without electricity, the region’s governor said. St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said fires broke out at the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot. He also reported damage to infrastructure in several city districts and said one person had died and five were injured. The available accounts do not establish how much damage the oil facilities sustained or whether their operations were disrupted. Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko said the attack left roughly 20,000 people without power. He reported that air defenses downed 144 drones in the region; other reports gave a figure of 145. Those regional counts are distinct from the national tally announced by Russia’s Defence Ministry, which said it had destroyed 1,015 Ukrainian drones overnight across 15 Russian regions, Crimea and the Black Sea. That nationwide figure has not been independently verified in the supplied reporting....