Ukraine has attacked Russian oil facilities near St. Petersburg. Alexander Drosdenko, the governor of the region surrounding the metropolis, said that 67 enemy drones had been shot down. There was no independent confirmation of this, but it points to a larger attack.
Parts of drones crashed in the port of Vysotsk on the Gulf of Finland, Drosdenko told the state-run Russian news agency Tass. Vysotsk hosts a large oil loading terminal. Additionally, the oil port of St. Petersburg itself appears to have been hit, as videos on Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels suggest. The city’s administration gave no information on this.
Russia’s Defense Ministry only confirmed attacks on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, but not on the city itself. Nationwide, 389 Ukrainian combat drones were intercepted overnight, it said.
Most recently, Ukraine set fire to tanks in the oil port of St. Petersburg in early June, just as the International Economic Forum hosted by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin was about to begin. The city lies more than 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine.
Source: www.zeit.de
