A pair of Ukrainian drone strike packages blew up an oil export terminal and set a navy warship in drydock on fire in the northwestern city of St. Petersburg, causing unmistakable damage and contradicting Kremlin news narratives that the attacks were ineffective and barely noticed by residents and thousands of foreign visitors to the Baltic Sea port, new satellite imagery made public on Wednesday showed.Eyewitnesses recorded at least five hits and fiery explosions during a Ukrainian kamikaze robot aircraft raid on the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal around dawn on Wednesday, only hours before a major international forum profiling Russia as a geopolitical, military, and economic world power was scheduled to open. President Vladimir Putin was the keynote speaker.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.Later in the day, the Ukrainian investigative group Skhemy published Planet Labs satellite imagery showing a large-scale fire at the terminal site. Imagery released by the US spatial intelligence firm Vantor via AP showed a large smoke plume towering over the oil terminal. At least five reservoirs were destroyed, and others probably were breached, the Ukrainian OSINT researchers at CyberBroshono said in a Thursday report.The conference, called the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF, or ПМЭФ in Russian), is Russia’s flagship annual business and economic event. State-controlled media usually describe it as “Russian Davos” or the Russian analogue to the World Economic Forum.
Satellite Imagery Confirms Ukraine Drones Damaged Russian Refinery and Warship
Half of the fuel storage reservoirs at Russia’s main Baltic Sea oil export terminal were burned. A Russian navy warship took hits and was ablaze. Kremlin media ignored it.














