Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s St Petersburg kills 1, hits energy sites

Zelenskyy says Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight kill two people, adding Moscow continues to break energy ceasefire.

Smoke rises above the city following a Ukrainian air attack on the oil terminal in St Petersburg on October 18, 2026 [AFP]

A “massive” Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg in Russia has killed at least one person and injured five others, the city’s governor said on Sunday.

Alexandre Beglov said firefighters were battling blazes at the St Petersburg oil terminal, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district south of the city.

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The governor said several residential buildings were also hit, along with two houses.

City authorities said the attack disrupted flights at St Petersburg’s main airport, one of the country’s busiest, which was restricting operations “for safety reasons”, Beglov said.

Russian e-commerce company Ozon said there was a fire at its logistics hub in St Petersburg, and the internet company VK said its data centre in the Leningrad region had been attacked by drones, adding that normal services were available to users.

The governor of the Leningrad region surrounding St Petersburg, Alexander Drozdenko, said 145 drones had been shot down and about 20,000 people were without electricity following the drone raid.

Russia’s state-run news agency TASS said the attack was the largest on the region in the last four years.

Moscow’s defence ministry said 1,015 Ukrainian drones were neutralised overnight.

Russian strikes kill two

In Ukraine, Russian forces struck residential buildings overnight, killing two people and injuring 12, including two children, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X on Sunday.

“This morning, there was a strike on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn. All necessary services are working at the site,” he said.

“In total, over this past week, the Russians have attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic.”

Rescuers work at the site an apartment building damaged during a Russian air strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on October 17, 2026 [Reuters]

The attacks came after Zelenskyy said this week that Kyiv would resume hitting Russian refineries, insisting he was standing up for his war-torn country, as support from the United States declined.

Zelenskyy told the British newspaper the Financial Times this week that Kyiv was “done” with an “energy ceasefire” unilaterally declared by United States President Donald Trump and would resume strikes on Russia in retaliation for a wave of attacks.

‘Energy ceasefire’ falters

Trump announced an immediate “ energy ceasefire ” between Russia and Ukraine last week, but Zelenskyy said Moscow continued to violate the deal.

“Since the American President announced the energy ceasefire a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times,” he wrote in his X post on Sunday.

“Last night alone, there were strikes on substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions,” he wrote, adding that tens of thousands of families remained without power as energy workers and repair crews worked round the clock to restore supplies.

Zelenskyy also said that the main targets of Moscow’s recent strikes were energy facilities, as the Russians were trying to “cause a blackout”.

“America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements,” he said.

Trump is also facing criticism in both Europe and the US after he signed an executive order on Friday to waive sanctions and tariffs targeting Moscow’s energy revenues.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Trump’s waiver would be a pause to “analyse” their impact on the global economy.

“The president wants to take the 60-day period of time to sort of analyse what imposing both sanctions and tariffs will mean to the global economy and even to the US economy,” Rubio said, noting that the economic restrictions involved a number of countries, not just Russia.

Trump said late on Saturday his decision would benefit the US.

“We’ll figure it out, and you’ll figure it out,” he said. “It’s a very good decision, and it’s going to be a decision that’s good for the country, and I think good for the world.”

泽连斯基称，俄罗斯昨晚对乌克兰的袭击造成两人死亡，并补充说，莫斯科继续违反能源停火协议。

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俄罗斯圣彼得堡市长周日表示，乌克兰无人机对圣彼得堡发动的大规模袭击已造成至少一人死亡，五人受伤。

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州长表示，包括两栋房屋在内的几栋居民楼也遭到了袭击。

圣彼得堡市政府官员表示，此次袭击扰乱了该国最繁忙的机场之一——圣彼得堡主要机场的航班，该机场“出于安全原因”限制了航班运营，别格洛夫说。

俄罗斯电子商务公司 Ozon 表示，其位于圣彼得堡的物流中心发生火灾；互联网公司 VK 表示，其位于列宁格勒州的数据中心遭到无人机袭击，但补充说，用户仍然可以正常使用服务。

圣彼得堡周边列宁格勒州州长亚历山大·德罗兹坚科表示，无人机袭击导致 145 架无人机被击落，约 2 万人断电。

俄罗斯官方通讯社塔斯社称，此次袭击是该地区近四年来规模最大的一次袭击。

莫斯科国防部称，一夜之间摧毁了1015架乌克兰无人机。

俄罗斯空袭致两人死亡

乌克兰总统泽连斯基周日在X网站上发帖称，俄罗斯军队连夜袭击了乌克兰的居民楼，造成两人死亡，12人受伤，其中包括两名儿童。

“今天上午，沃伦州一家农业企业发生了罢工。目前，现场所有必要的服务设施都已恢复运行。”他说道。

“过去一周，俄罗斯总共出动近 2700 架攻击型无人机、1700 枚航空炸弹和 66 枚导弹（其中大部分是弹道导弹）袭击乌克兰。”

2026年10月17日，救援人员在乌克兰扎波罗热被俄罗斯空袭损毁的公寓楼现场进行救援工作。[路透社]

此前，泽连斯基本周表示，基辅将恢复对俄罗斯炼油厂的袭击，并坚称他是在捍卫饱受战争蹂躏的国家，因为来自美国的支持正在减少。

泽连斯基本周告诉英国《金融时报》，基辅“不再接受”美国总统唐纳德·特朗普单方面宣布的“能源停火”，并将恢复对俄罗斯的打击，以报复一波又一波的袭击。

“能源停火”未能实现

特朗普上周宣布俄罗斯和乌克兰之间立即“能源停火”，但泽连斯基表示，莫斯科继续违反该协议。

“自从美国总统一周前宣布能源停火以来，俄罗斯已经蓄意袭击乌克兰的能源、石油和天然气部门 76 次，”他在周日发布的 X 帖子中写道。

他写道：“仅昨晚，文尼察、日托米尔、赫梅利尼茨基和敖德萨等地的变电站就发生了罢工。”他还补充说，由于能源工人和维修人员日夜不停地工作以恢复供电，数万户家庭仍然没有电力供应。

泽连斯基还表示，莫斯科最近袭击的主要目标是能源设施，因为俄罗斯人试图“造成停电”。

他说：“美国应该看到，俄罗斯并没有对制裁的解除或协议采取任何对等措施。”

特朗普周五签署了一项行政命令，豁免针对莫斯科能源收入的制裁和关税，此举也让他面临来自欧洲和美国的批评。

美国国务卿马可·卢比奥周六表示，特朗普的豁免将暂停实施，以便“分析”这些措施对全球经济的影响。

鲁比奥表示：“总统希望利用这60天的时间来分析同时实施制裁和关税对全球经济乃至美国经济的意义。”他还指出，这些经济限制措施涉及多个国家，而不仅仅是俄罗斯。

特朗普周六晚间表示，他的决定将有利于美国。

“我们会想办法解决的，你们也会想办法解决的，”他说。“这是一个非常好的决定，对国家有利，我认为对世界也有利。”