Ukraine's Drones Reach Oil Terminal in St. Petersburg

A Ukrainian drone attack struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Russian officials said, as Kyiv presses its 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, the AP reports. He said air defenses shot down 72 Ukrainian drones across Russia's second-largest city and the surrounding region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as part of Ukraine's "long-range sanctions" against Russia. He said 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. The Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, has suffered particularly from heavy strikes, causing authorities to suspend gasoline sales to civilians. A Ukrainian attack on Saturday killed one person and injured two more, including a 10-year-old child, Moscow-installed Gov. Sergei Aksyonov said.