A powerful drone strike in St. Petersburg. Terminal on fire, fire in the city

Last night, air defenses shot down a total of 144 drones over the Leningrad Oblast, Aleksandr Drozdenko, the governor of the region located in northwestern Russia, announced on Telegram. One person died in the attack.

In turn, the press release on the VK website states that despite the attack, the social networking site's services "are available to users in normal mode."

The platform is considered the Russian equivalent of Facebook and is popular in other post-Soviet countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Since 2017, VK is not available in Ukraine.

The logistics hub of Ozon, a large e-commerce company, is on fire.

In St. Petersburg and its surroundings there are many infrastructure facilities necessary for Russian trade in energy raw materials. For over half a year, the energy sector has been the target of Ukraine's attacks in retaliation for Russian bombings.

In June, the oil terminal in St. Petersburg was already under the radar of Ukrainian forces. This plant is one of the largest fuel storage and export facilities in Russia. It receives and sends petroleum products, and according to official data, its throughput is 12.5 million tons per year.