Fires at Two St Petersburg Oil Facilities After an Overnight Attack Kills at Least One
At least one person was killed and at least five injured in an overnight attack on St Petersburg that targeted two of the city's oil facilities, the region's governor, Alexander Beglov, said. He said fires were being extinguished at the St Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot, that 12 apartment buildings and two homes were damaged, and that Pulkovo Airport was temporarily closed. Kyiv has not commented on the strikes. A logistics centre belonging to Ozon — described by the BBC as Russia's Amazon — and a data centre belonging to VKontakte were also hit.
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The word carrying the most weight here is "ceasefire". Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had targeted Ukraine's energy sector 76 times since Donald Trump declared an "energy ceasefire" last week. A truce that one side counts in dozens of violations is really a scoreboard.
It also has a commodity attached to it. Trump called for a truce to facilitate a deal he struck with Vladimir Putin to supply diesel — which goes some way to explaining why Ukraine resuming strikes on Russian oil facilities drew his ire.
Whatever the diplomacy is called, the air war has a rate. Russia's defence ministry said it shot down more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight into Sunday — a number that says as much about drones as mass-produced munitions as it does about air defence.