Ukraine Drones Strike St. Petersburg Oil Facilities; Russian Bombing Kills Four in Sumy

Ukraine has again targeted Russian oil facilities on the Baltic Sea near St. Petersburg with drones. The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drosdenko, reported that 72 enemy drones were shot down. According to authorities, an oil export port on the Baltic Sea was also hit during the nighttime assault.

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72 enemy drones were shot down.

The governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, described it as a large-scale attack on the metropolis of six million inhabitants. Drosdenko stated, according to the state-run Russian news agency TASS, that parts of drones crashed in the port of Vysotsk on the Gulf of Finland. Local media outlet "Bumaga" reported a fire at the city's oil terminal. The port, located about 170 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland, handles oil, grain, coal, and liquefied natural gas.

In early June, Ukraine had previously set tanks in the St. Petersburg oil port ablaze as the International Economic Forum, attended by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, was about to begin. St. Petersburg is located more than 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine.

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a large-scale attack on the metropolis with six million inhabitants.

Meanwhile, in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, at least four people were killed and 27 injured by a Russian bombing on Friday evening, as reported by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Authorities in the Sumy region stated that the Russian air force attacked the city center with six glide bombs, which are launched from Russian airspace and guided to their targets over dozens of kilometers.

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at least four people were killed and 27 injured.