St Petersburg attack hits oil terminal as truce fr...

Summary

• A large Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s second city set oil facilities ablaze on Sunday, and the St Petersburg attack killed one person.
• A truce that never heldThe St Petersburg attack followed an energy ceasefire that Trump declared last week.
• For now, the St Petersburg attack shows how far the energy truce has drifted from reality, as both sides keep trading blows on each other’s fuel networks.

AI Generated Summary

A large Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s second city set oil facilities ablaze on Sunday, and the St Petersburg attack killed one person.

Governor Alexander Beglov said five more people went to hospital. Fires burned at the oil terminal, an oil depot called Ruchyi, and industrial warehouses in the Kolpinsky district.

Ukrainian monitoring channels said the raid began around 2:50 a.m. Explosions lit the sky above a city of 5.6 million people.

Damage after the St Petersburg attack

Beglov said 12 apartment blocks and two houses suffered damage. Authorities also limited flights at Pulkovo airport overnight, and crews fought blazes into the morning.

Eyewitness footage showed drones over the city as air defence systems fired, while large explosions lit the night sky.