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Oil Terminal Burns in St. Petersburg, Cutting Russia Off From Baltic Oil Exports

From Rzeczpospolita · () Polish

Translated from Polish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Ukrainian drones attacked St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region overnight on July 4, causing a major fire at an oil terminal with annual capacity of 12.5 million tonnes.
  • St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport closed, more than 50 flights were suspended and mobile internet access was disrupted.
  • Russian officials said air defenses intercepted drones and reported no injuries at the terminal, while the attack’s potential effect on operations remained significant.

Ukrainian drones reached St. Petersburg overnight on July 4, setting fire to a strategic oil terminal on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland. Images published by Ukrainian monitoring channels and the outlets Bumaga and Astra showed a huge blaze and a tall column of black smoke rising over the site.

The terminal, located in St. Petersburg’s Kirovsky district, is described as Russia’s largest Baltic oil terminal, with annual capacity of 12.5 million tonnes. Before the attack, it held 21 oil tanks. Recordings appeared to show some of them engulfed in flames. The article says the strike was carried out by FP-1 drones, citing the portal Supernova.

Large-scale attack.

· Alexander BeglovThe St. Petersburg mayor used the phrase to describe the overnight drone attack.

St. Petersburg Mayor Alexander Beglov confirmed what he called a large-scale drone attack and said air-defense systems had acted. He urged residents to remain at home until the drone threat had been removed and warned of interruptions to mobile internet. Pulkovo Airport was closed, more than 50 flights were suspended, and authorities told people not to travel to the airport.

The attack struck the oil terminal in the Kirovsky district.

· Alexander BeglovBeglov later confirmed that the terminal had been hit.

Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko said 67 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted overnight. He also reported that drone debris fell near the port of Vysotsk, a key Russian port in the eastern Baltic. Russia’s Defense Ministry said 389 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted across 19 regions and over the Sea of Azov and Black Sea.

Beglov later confirmed that the attack had struck the oil terminal in the Kirovsky district. He said the resulting human-caused emergency had been dealt with and that no one was injured. Another Ukrainian drone crashed in Peterhof, the area known for its imperial palaces. The article recalled that the terminal had already been attacked on June 3, when a raid during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum caused a serious fire. It also linked the incident to a reported drone strike two days earlier on Lukoil’s NORSI refinery, saying the attacks could deepen Russia’s fuel crisis.

Until the drone threat has been removed.

· Alexander BeglovThe mayor urged residents to remain at home until the danger had passed.
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Originally published by Rzeczpospolita in Polish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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