A person was killed and five others were injured due to a large-scale attack by Ukrainian drones that targeted the Russian city of St. Petersburg, causing fires at oil facilities and industrial sites, according to Russian officials.
The city's governor, Alexander Beglov, stated in a comment followed by the news video agency that firefighting teams are continuing their operations to extinguish the fires at the St. Petersburg oil depot and the Ruchi oil storage facility, as well as industrial warehouses in the Kolpino area south of the city.
For its part, Russian e-commerce company "Ozon" announced that one of its logistics centers in St. Petersburg was struck by a drone, confirming that emergency teams are working to extinguish the fire that broke out at the site.
Beglov added that the attack caused damage to about 12 residential buildings and two houses, while the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, reported that Russian air defenses shot down 145 drones overnight in the area.
Drozdenko noted that the attacks caused power outages for about 20,000 people, as efforts to address the damage caused by the attack are ongoing.