Ukrainian Drones Strike Saint Petersburg and Siberia in Major Escalation

Ukrainian drones struck targets across Russia over the weekend, with the most significant attacks hitting Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region, including a strategic oil terminal, a major logistics hub, and a data center. The strikes also extended to Siberia, marking a major escalation in Ukraine's long-range campaign. In Saint Petersburg, drones hit the Petersburg Oil Terminal, one of the Baltic's largest fuel transshipment complexes with a capacity of over 12 million tons. A massive fire broke out at an Ozon marketplace logistics hub covering more than 50,000 square meters, and a VKontakte data center was struck, causing a global outage of the Russian social network. Debris also damaged a cable-stayed bridge and the "Vostochnaya" substation, leading to widespread power outages. The attacks followed Kyiv's decision to lift its moratorium on strikes against Russian energy infrastructure, announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky. In Siberia, drones hit a Gazprom condensate stabilization plant in Surgut for the first time. Earlier strikes targeted the Ryazan oil refinery, thermal infrastructure in Vladimir, and the Borisoglebsk airfield, where six Su-34M fighter jets were destroyed. A massive drone attack on Moscow on October 14 paralyzed all four airports and disrupted Sberbank's largest data center.