Blaze at St Petersburg oil sites as Ukraine launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia

Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St.Petersburg on Sunday, as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones across Russia in one of its largest ever aerial bombardments.The attack comes amid deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington, with US President Donald Trump criticizing Kyiv for its strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.One person was killed and five more were wounded in the attack, which sparked fires at both the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the city’s Ruchi oil depot, said local Gov.

Alexander Beglov.A logistics center belonging to Russian retailer Ozon and a data center for local tech giant VK were also targeted, both companies confirmed.Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that its forces had destroyed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, as well as the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the Black Sea.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian state news agnecy Tass that Kyiv was “resisting” Moscow’s invasion, but that Ukraine could not “change the current course of events.”Meanwhile, a woman died and at least two other people were wounded, including a 6-year-old girl, after Russia launched two attacks on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials said.Two apartment buildings, 18 cars and an educational institution were damaged as a result of the attack, head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Mykhailo Semikin said.US President Donald Trump announced on Oct.

11 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy cease-fire” in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but offered no details on it and Kyiv reported attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement.Ukraine confirmed Thursday it had resumed attacks on Russian oil after a three-day hiatus.Zelensky was outraged by Russia’s continuing aerial bombardment of his country’s energy infrastructure in apparent defiance of Trump’s demand on Sunday for both sides to halt those attacks.The Ukrainian government init...