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Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg oil terminal in latest long-range attack on Russia 44%
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7/4/2026, 9:52:43 AM
Keywords: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin, St Petersburg, Military And Defense, Drone Surveillance And Warfare, Ukraine, Russia Government, War And Unrest, Donetsk, Russia, Kyiv, Russia Ukraine War, Russia Ukraine War Oil St Petersburg, Dmitry Peskov, Politics, Alexander Beglov, Ukraine Government, Sergey Aksyonov, Sergei Rudskoy, Business
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Ukrainian drones have struck an oil terminal in St.
Petersburg as Kyiv ramps up bombardment of Russia’s oil infrastructure.
Almost daily long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities have created a fuel crisis and heaped political pressure on the Kremlin as its all-out invasion of Ukraine stretches into its fifth year.
Gov.
Alexander Beglov said the city’s Kirovsky district on the Baltic Sea was hit.
He also said that air defenses shot down 72 Ukrainian drones across Russia’s second-largest city and the surrounding region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as part of Ukraine’s “long-range sanctions” against Russia.
He said that Ukrainian forces also hit a military target on the island of Kronstadt, just off the coast of St.
Petersburg.
“The Ukrainian defense forces hit the port oil infrastructure, which earns money for the Russian war, and there were also hits on Kronstadt — an important military target,” he said in a post on Telegram.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has shrugged off Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s energy facilities as “not critical,” and insisted the war will continue until his goals are met.
He has described the attacks on Russian energy as an effort by Ukraine to distract attention from its losses on the battlefield, although analysts say the advance of Russian forces has been stymied in recent months.
On Friday, Putin visited the Russian military headquarters directing the war in Ukraine and received a report on the capture of the city of Kostyantynivka, after weeks of intense street battles.
He hailed it as a key step toward capturing the nearby cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the key remaining strongholds in the so-called “forest belt” of heavily fortified cities in the Donetsk region that remain in Ukraine’s hands.
“The city is now under our full control.
Units of the Southern Army Group are completing the clearance of city blocks, rooting out small groups and individual Ukrainian fighters who may still be hiding in basements and ruins,” he said.
Zelenskyy denied that Russia took control of the city.
“It is just another Russian lie, an attempt to generate some kind of a news story,” he wrote on social media Saturday.
“If Kostiantynivka were under Russian control, then perhaps Putin would have no problem meeting me there to find a diplomatic way to finally end this war.
But the fact is, he won’t cross the front line — reality is very different from Putin’s words.”
But the Kremlin quickly dismissed Zelenskyy’s offer, with Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda on Saturday evening that Putin would meet the Ukrainian leader in Moscow once Kyiv was ready to make “important, consequential decisions.”
Putin appears to believe his government can keep the fuel crisis from eroding his authority and support for the war he launched more than four years ago.
At the very least, the attacks have brought the war home even more poignantly for millions of Russians, shattering Putin’s narrative of the conflict as something that doesn’t affect the lives of ordinary people in his country.
The border city of Belgorod, which Ukrainian drone strikes have also repeatedly targeted, was left almost completely without power on Saturday due to overnight attacks, local media reported.
Meanwhile, eight people were wounded after a Russian attack struck residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, including two children, local authorities said on Saturday.
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