Ukrainian strikes set an oil export terminal and a depot ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war. One person was killed and five were wounded in the St. Petersburg attack, which sparked fires at the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the city’s Ruchi oil depot, a local official said, per the AP. A logistics center belonging to Russian retailer Ozon and a data center operated by Russian tech giant VK were also targeted, the companies confirmed.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces had destroyed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, and the Black Sea. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told state news agency Tass that Kyiv was “resisting” Moscow’s invasion but could not “change the current course of events.” In the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said a woman was killed and a 6-year-old girl was among at least two other people wounded in two Russian attacks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote Sunday on X that Russia attacked his country’s energy, oil, and gas sectors 76 times in the week since President Trump announced an “energy ceasefire.” Energy facilities in four Ukrainian regions were struck overnight, leaving tens of thousands of families without power, Zelensky said, accusing Russia of trying to cause a blackout.