St. Petersburg region port and oil terminal hit in major Ukrainian drone attack

Russia’s second city of St Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region came under a large Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Saturday, with a local port and oil infrastructure struck, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said.

MOSCOW — Russia’s second city of St Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region came under a sustained Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Saturday, with a local port and oil infrastructure struck, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said.

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St Petersburg Governor Alexander ⁠Beglov said the city of 6 million ​had ⁠been subjected to a “large-scale” drone attack, with the city’s oil terminal struck. He said there were no casualties and that ⁠the aftermath of the attack had been dealt with.

Leningrad region ​Governor ⁠Alexander Drozdenko said drones had struck ‌the port of Vysotsk, about 105 miles northwest of St Petersburg on the Baltic Sea. The port handles oil, grain, coal ‌and liquefied natural gas.