At least 126 UAVs have been shot down by air defenses outside Russia’s second-largest city overnight, according to authorities
A blaze has broken out at an oil terminal in St. Petersburg as a result of a major Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s second-largest city, local governor Aleksandr Beglov has said.
Emergencies services have been tackling fires at the Petersburg Oil Terminal in the Great Port of St. Petersburg and civilian infrastructure facilities in four other districts of the city, Beglov said in a social media post on Sunday. There were no casualties, he added.
The affected oil terminal is the largest facility of its kind in the Baltic Region, handling 125 million tons of liquefied product per year.
Flights have been delayed at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo International Airport due to the raid, according to the governor.
At least 144 UAVs were shot down by air defenses overnight, Aleksandr Drozdenko, the head of Leningrad Region, which surrounds St. Petersburg, said on social media.
Four people have been hospitalized for smoke inhalation from a blaze caused when debris from an intercepted UAV fell on an apartment block in the town of Vsevolzhsk, he said.
Residential areas were also hit by debris in Gatchina, Kirovsk and several other settlements, according to Drozdenko.
Some 20,000 people remain without electricity in Leningrad Region; two transformer substations in the community of Yanino, servicing some 50 apartment blocks, went offline during the Ukrainian raid, the governor said.
Russia’s leading social media platform VK said in a statement that one of its data centers in Leningrad Region has been targeted by Ukrainian UAVs.
According to the Downdetector website, the number of reports from users about issues with VK’s services increased following the attack.