Authorities in St Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region are assessing damage after what they described as a large overnight drone raid. Russian regional officials attributed the raid to Ukraine. That attribution, as well as the reported interception figures and the extent of damage, has not been independently verified.
St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov said emergency crews were sent to fires at civilian infrastructure in four city districts and at the Petersburg Oil Terminal. His first statement said access to Pulkovo airport had been restricted for safety reasons and warned that mobile internet services could be disrupted. A later update said the immediate air-raid danger had ended, while firefighters were still working at the oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpinsky district.
Beglov subsequently reported that one person had died and five others were in hospital. He said 12 apartment blocks and two private houses had been damaged, and that residents evacuated during the night were returning home as inspections and repairs continued. A later independently reported account, also citing local authorities, put the number of people injured across St Petersburg and the Leningrad region at 15. The difference has not been reconciled publicly, so the broader injury total should be treated as provisional.
The incident also affected businesses and transport. Ozon said a fire broke out at its St Petersburg logistics hub and that workers had been evacuated; it said there were no injuries among its staff. VK said a data centre in the Leningrad region had come under attack but that its services remained available. A Ukrainian drone producer said the Ukrainian military had struck the VK facility. That assertion has not been independently assessed.
In the Leningrad region, governor Alexander Drozdenko said 145 drones had been downed during the night. He reported damage to wiring at the Vostochnaya substation, while saying transformers and the main power equipment remained in operation. Reserve power was switched on in Yanino, where he said around two-thirds of residents had been returned to the normal supply arrangement and a boiler house had restarted.
Drozdenko also reported damage to transformer equipment and a warehouse complex connected with VK’s data-centre site. He said windows at a school in Razmetelevo had been broken. In the Vsevolozhsk district, eight families were moved out of an entrance after a flat caught fire. He said a mother and three children were treated in hospital after smoke inhalation, were in stable condition and faced no threat to life.
Elsewhere, the regional governor said drone debris had damaged four holiday homes in the Kirov district, with no casualties reported there. He said more than 50 vehicles were damaged in Novoselye and Nizino on a preliminary count, and that a boiler-house pipe in Nizino had been severed. Another flat was damaged in the Gatchina district, prompting residents in its entrance to be relocated pending inspection. The regional administration said people whose property was damaged would be eligible for compensation from regional and municipal reserve funds.
The attack is a distinct development from earlier reporting on the wider war because it concerns a specific overnight incident, a reported death and injuries, fires at named sites, damage to homes and public infrastructure, power disruption and official recovery measures in St Petersburg and the Leningrad region. The casualty, damage and responsibility claims remain subject to the limits of the information released by the authorities and companies involved.
