Ukraine launches one of the largest drone attacks of the war against Saint Petersburg

The Ukrainian army launched this morning against Saint Petersburg, Russia's second city, and the adjacent Leningrad region, one of the largest drone attacks of the entire war, in which one person was killed and five others were injured.

The governor, Alexander Beglov, has confirmed the death of a citizen of the former tsarist capital and the downing of 144 enemy unmanned aircraft over the skies of the Leningrad region.

According to authorities and Telegram channels, the region's main oil terminal, an electrical substation, an e-commerce warehouse, a Vkontakte data center - the Russian Facebook - and a bridge have been attacked and damaged.

The attacks caused fires at two oil terminals. One of them (Ruchi), the largest city with a storage capacity of almost 74,000 cubic meters. Precisely, these facilities are used to store and supply AI-92 and AI-95 diesel. The other terminal has 21 fuel tanks.

This took place shortly after the White House agreed with the Kremlin on a deal for the supply of Russian diesel to the US and the international market, pumping which has not yet begun.

The authorities, who admitted fires in several infrastructures of the city bathed by the Gulf of Finland, had to impose restrictions on the operations of the Pulkovo airport for security reasons.

The Ukrainian drones also hit a Vkontakte data center in Leningrad, although the company assures that its services are operating normally, and a warehouse of the e-commerce company Ozon, whose facilities had already been attacked in the past, which was also caught in flames, according to the Astra channel.

In total, according to first estimates, some 20,000 people were left without electricity in a city of more than 5 million inhabitants due to the damage caused to the Vostóchonaya substation, to which must be added damage to several residential buildings in Leningrad.