Leningrad Oblast

so, and then, you know, back to just kind of, uh, some of the attacks that happened on Sunday.

So the governor of the Leningrad Oblast, which is the region that surrounds St. Petersburg, it's still called Leningrad.

Um, He said that 135 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over Leningrad, making it one of the largest attacks in the region of the war.

According to TASS, the Russian news agency, the largest attack occurred on June 6, 2026, when Russian forces intercepted 144 drones in the region.

and the attacks on St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast were part of a major Ukrainian attack on Russia that involved more than 1,000 drones.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces shot down 1,015 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions and the Black Sea.

Russian attacks also continued in Ukraine on Sunday, with strikes in the southern city of Zaporozhye, killing a woman and injuring two, including a six-year-old.

A bridge on the western high-speed diameter hit.

20,000 people in the Leningrad region without power.

And in the village of Novosergeevka, on the city's administrative border, a drone found the data center of VK, the company that runs the Russian Facebook, VKontakte, the Russian Spotify and the national messenger Max, and the substation next door.

By morning, with users across the country reporting that nothing worked, VK's press office issued a statement.

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Now, let's start with the people, because the Z-channels won't.

One person was killed, and five were hospitalized in the attack on Petersburg and Leningrad region, according to the governor.

And that's the figure as of the time of writing.

He said one person was killed and five injured, and that 12 apartment buildings and two houses were damaged.

Russian state media, citing Leningrad Oblast Health Committee, later said the number of injured had risen to 10.

The social network VK said a drone had attacked its data center, and its services remained operational.

The governor of Leningrad Oblast, Alexander Drozdenko, said 127 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region.

Ukrainian drone maker Firepoint claimed its FP-1 drone struck the terminal.

The targets and the extent of the damage could not be independently verified.

Ukraine has launched one of its largest ever aerial assaults against Russia.

Then Wolfgang reports the attack, which involved more than a thousand drones, hit a key oil export terminal in St. Petersburg and targeted a major data center in the Leningrad region.

Russian authorities said one person was killed and five others were wounded in the St. Petersburg attack, which sparked fires at an oil terminal and the city's oil depot.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggested the attacks, launched amid growing tension between Kyiv and the Trump administration, were direct retaliation for Russia's attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure over the past week.

The governor of St. Petersburg said firefighters were working at the city's oil terminal and the Ruchi Depot and called the strike massive.

The governor of the Leningrad region said 145 drones were downed and about 20,000 people lost power.

Russia struck the cities.

The mayor of Kyiv said an overnight strike killed a woman, hit a subway station and damaged a tower of 25 stories.

Among them, according to the independent Russian outlet Astra, one of Ozon's biggest fulfillment centers in the Russian Northwest.

A data center belonging to VK, VKontakte, the Kremlin-aligned social network, had been hit in the Leningrad region.

A drone struck the Cable Stade bridge over the Korobeyni fairway.

Substations went down and around 20,000 people lost power.

Russian state media say the St. Petersburg oil terminal was struck and a data center belonging to the Vkontakte company as well.

The governor of Leningrad Oblast, Alexander Drozdenko, says one hundred and twenty-seven Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region.

Now the caveats.

The Kyiv Independent says it cannot independently verify the targets or the extent of the damage.