Ukrainian drone raid on St Petersburg kills at least one and strikes oil and tech infrastructure as energy ceasefire frays

At least one person was killed and at least five injured in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg that struck oil facilities, a logistics centre, and a data centre across the city and surrounding region.

Fires were being extinguished at the St Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot, according to the city’s governor, Alexander Beglov. Industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district south of the city were also hit. A logistics centre belonging to Ozon, Russia’s largest e-commerce platform, was struck by a drone that sparked a fire; staff were evacuated and no one was injured. The internet company VKontakte confirmed its regional data centre had been targeted, but said services were available as usual after users reported early-morning outages. Pulkovo Airport, one of the country’s busiest, temporarily restricted operations for safety reasons. The governor said 12 apartment buildings and two homes were damaged in the attacks.

Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region surrounding St Petersburg, said 145 drones were shot down and about 20,000 people were without electricity following the raid. Russia’s state-run news agency TASS called it the largest attack on the region in the last four years. Russia’s defence ministry said it neutralised over 1,000 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight.

Ceasefire frays as both sides strike

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had attacked Ukraine’s energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times since Trump announced the energy ceasefire last week. Overnight strikes hit substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions, Zelenskyy said, and an agricultural enterprise in Volyn was also struck. In total over the past week, he said, Russia launched nearly 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most aimed at energy facilities. Russian forces struck residential buildings in Ukraine overnight, killing two people and injuring 12, including two children. Tens of thousands of people remained without power. “America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements,” Zelenskyy said.

Trump announced the energy ceasefire last week, but Ukraine paused strikes on Russian oil facilities for only three days before resuming them earlier this week. Zelenskyy told the Financial Times that Kyiv was “done” with the ceasefire and would resume strikes on Russia. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order waiving sanctions and tariffs targeting Moscow’s energy revenues, drawing criticism including from some US Republicans. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the waiver was a 60-day pause to analyse the impact of sanctions and tariffs on the global and US economy.

The St Petersburg oil terminal was last hit in July. Earlier this month, Ukraine attacked Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine, causing service disruptions. The UN noted on Friday that the first two weeks of October were the deadliest for Ukrainian civilians in years.