The Ukrainian side announced that on the night of Wednesday it hit several important objects on the territory of Russia, including the St. Petersburg oil terminal and military targets at the base in Kronstadt. The International Economic Forum is starting in the city, at which President Vladimir Putin is also scheduled to speak.
03.06.2026 09:15, updated: 12:49
According to the statement published on Telegram was part of Ukraine’s “far-reaching sanctions” involving members of Ukraine’s Counterintelligence Service (SBU), Unmanned Systems Forces, Special Operations Forces, Military Intelligence (HUR) and the Border Service.
The St. Petersburg oil terminal is located approximately 1,100 kilometers from the Ukrainian state border. The Ukrainian side called it an object of the Russian oil industry, which “works for war”. According to the report, an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian armaments was also targeted. It is almost 600 kilometers away from the front line.
During the Ukrainian airstrike, according to videos from the scene, the oil terminal in St. Petersburg was also hit, where a fire subsequently broke out. According to Le Monde, the Russian bloggers themselves informed about it. Photos and videos with plumes of smoke over the terminal were published by Ukrainian intelligence, Telegram OSINT channels and the Russian independent agency ASTRA.
Due to the night attacks, the operation of Pulkovo International Airport in St. Petersburg was temporarily suspended. However, the airport has in the meantime resumed receiving and departing planes. The International Economic Forum, usually attended by Russia’s political, economic and business elite, including President Vladimir Putin, begins in the city on Wednesday.
About 20,000 guests from 130 countries are expected to arrive at the three-day forum, once considered Russia’s main event for attracting Western investors. According to the Interfax portal, Putin is scheduled to speak at the plenary session on Friday, June 5.
St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said the drones also targeted infrastructure facilities in the port city of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, about 30 kilometers west of St. Petersburg, as well as in two districts of the city. Beglov admitted damaging some objects and injuring several people. He did not report any casualties.
The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, reported that the region was attacked by at least 50 drones during the night. Russia’s Defense Ministry says air defense intercepted 354 Ukrainian drones overnight over several areas in western Russia, near Moscow, Crimea and the Sea of Azov. Several airports in these regions temporarily suspended operations.
The strikes took place a day after one of the the biggest Russian attacks. The Ukrainian command said that Russia fired 73 missiles and sent 656 drones on Tuesday. The attacks claimed at least 23 lives in Ukraine, including children, and also caused damage in Kyiv and the Dnipro.
Russia will continue the war against Ukraine precisely so that attacks are not similar to the attack on St. Petersburg, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, according to news agencies. It was on the orders of Vladimir Putin that Russian troops invaded the neighboring country in February 2022, unleashing the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II, which, according to estimates, claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of civilians, including women and children.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in St. Petersburg on Wednesday night, military targets at a base in the nearby city of Kronstadt and an industrial facility in the Tambov region in the center of the European part of the Russian Federation, the British station BBC reported.
In his post on the Telegram network, Zelensky said that “at night, important objects on the territory of Russia were hit. Among them, the St. Petersburg oil terminal. From the state border of Ukraine, this object … which serves the war (launched by Russia), is approximately 1,100 kilometers away. Purely military targets at the base in Kronstadt were also hit.”
