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Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s St Petersburg kills 1, hits energy sites Smoke rises above the city following a Ukrainian air attack on the oil terminal in St Petersburg on October 18, 2026 A “massive” Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg in Russia has killed at least one person and injured five others, the city’s governor said on Sunday. Alexandre Beglov said firefighters were battling blazes at the St Petersburg oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district south of the city.
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The governor said several residential buildings were also hit, along with two houses. City authorities said the attack disrupted flights at St Petersburg’s main airport, one of the country’s busiest, which was restricting operations “for safety reasons”, Beglov said. Russian e-commerce company Ozon said there was a fire at its logistics hub in St Petersburg, and the internet company VK said its data centre in the Leningrad region had been attacked by drones, adding that normal services were available to users. The governor of the Leningrad region surrounding St Petersburg, Alexander Drozdenko, said 145 drones had been shot down and about 20,000 people were without electricity following the drone raid. Russia’s state-run news agency TASS said the attack was the largest on the region in the last four years. Moscow’s defence ministry said 1,015 Ukrainian drones were neutralised overnight. Russian strikes kill two In Ukraine, Russian forces struck residential buildings overnight, killing two people and injuring 12, including two children, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X on Sunday.
Originally reported by Al Jazeera.
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