Drones Strike Oil Terminal in St. Petersburg, Fire Breaks Out

Strike drones of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a port oil depot in St. Petersburg.

This was reported by Astra.

The attack took place on the night of July 3-4 after a drone alert was issued in the region.

According to photos and video footage, the strike occurred at the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal. At this time, authorities have not officially commented on the cause of the explosions or the black smoke spreading over the city.

The St. Petersburg Oil Terminal (SPT, JSC St. Petersburg Oil Terminal) is one of Russia’s largest and most important oil transshipment terminals on the Baltic Sea, located at coordinates 59.868186, 30.206151, approximately 600-650 km from the state border with Ukraine.

The oil terminal is located in the southeastern part of the Gulf of Finland, within the fourth district of the Port of St. Petersburg, approximately 17 km from the city center.

The facility covers an area of about 37 hectares and has an annual transshipment capacity of 10-12.5 million metric tons of light and dark petroleum products.

The terminal’s infrastructure includes a tank farm comprising 21 to 32 tanks with a total storage capacity of approximately 397,000 m³. The facility is equipped with a multimodal cargo reception system via rail, river transport, and pipelines.

Shipments are loaded onto ocean-going tankers, for which the draft limit is 11 meters.

This is not the first attack on the city’s oil facilities. On June 3, the largest attack to date targeted the city’s oil and fuel infrastructure, as well as warehouses and a Russian Navy corvette.

One of the targets was the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, and a major fire broke out on its premises. In addition, on the same day, Ukrainian drones struck the Russian missile corvette Boykiy in the dry dock of the Kronstadt Naval Base, located in St. Petersburg.

At the time of the attack, the vessel was in the Veleschinsky Dry Dock in Kronstadt, where it had been undergoing scheduled repairs since February 2026.