Ukrainian drones strike St Petersburg and Leningrad region overnight
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Ukrainian long-range drones struck St Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region overnight on Saturday in one of the largest deep-strike operations against President Vladimir Putin’s home city, Russian and Ukrainian authorities confirmed. Governor Alexander Beglov said the city’s Kirovsky district on the Baltic Sea was hit, while air defences shot down 72 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strikes targeted oil infrastructure that funds Russia’s war effort and also hit the Kronstadt naval base, calling it “an important military target” more than 850km from Ukraine’s border.
The operation, conducted approximately 900km from Ukrainian-held territory, triggered widespread local disruptions. Russian authorities briefly halted flight operations at Pulkovo Airport and throttled municipal mobile internet networks to jam the drones’ cellular-backed navigation systems. Regional officials said debris struck an oil terminal, a nearby port and the 18th-century Peterhof Palace complex. Drozdenko added that drone debris fell near the port of Vysotsk, close to the Finnish border, without giving a casualty toll. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said 389 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted overnight nationwide, but confirmed strikes only in the wider Leningrad region. Moscow also reported one killed in Bryansk and another in annexed Crimea, while Belgorod officials said attacks on infrastructure cut power and water.
Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had struck oil infrastructure funding Russia’s war effort and also hit the Kronstadt naval base in St Petersburg, calling it “an important military target”. Russia’s oil refining capacity partially ‘disabled’ On Saturday, Ukraine’s General Staff claimed its attacks had disabled 42.74 percent of Russia’s oil refining capacity as of early July, reporting eight refineries hit over the past month and more than 60 storage tanks destroyed or damaged. It put cumulative industry losses at $13.5bn since August 2025. Independent energy analysts estimate the functional disruption to be closer to one-third of Russia’s capacity.
The strikes come as Russia’s battlefield gains have slowed, with front lines largely unchanged in recent months. President Putin visited the Russian military headquarters directing the war in Ukraine on Friday and received a report on the capture of the city of Kostyantynivka, after weeks of intense street battles. He hailed it as a key step toward capturing the nearby cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the key remaining strongholds in the so-called “forest belt” of heavily fortified cities in the Donetsk region that remain in Ukraine’s hands. The capture of Kostyantynivka, a big transport and industrial hub, is of “major strategic importance,” Putin, clad in military fatigues, said in televised comments.
Finnish authorities imposed temporary aviation and maritime restrictions in the eastern Gulf of Finland early on Saturday as a precautionary measure amid the drone attacks. The restrictions were lifted by 09:18 local time after air surveillance was intensified in southeastern Finland from 05:18 onwards. “We have intensified air surveillance in order to ensure, if necessary, the safety of people and the operational conditions of authorities,” said Jere Paldanius, spokesperson for the Finnish Defence Forces’ Communications Department.
The attack follows weeks of almost daily long-range Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities, which have created a fuel crisis and heaped political pressure on the Kremlin. St Petersburg’s Kirovsky district was previously hit in June, ahead of Russia’s flagship St Petersburg International Economic Forum. The Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, has suffered particularly from heavy strikes, causing local authorities to suspend gasoline sales to civilians. A Ukrainian attack on Saturday killed one person and injured two more, including a 10-year-old child, the Moscow-installed Governor Sergei Aksyonov said.
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