One killed, 15 injured in Ukrainian drone attack on St Petersburg and Leningrad region


Oct 18 (Reuters) - One ⁠person was killed and 15 were injured in ⁠a Ukrainian drone attack on oil facilities, ‌logistics and data centres in Russia's St Petersburg and the Leningrad region, local authorities said on Sunday.

St Petersburg's governor Alexander Beglov ​said fires had broken out at ⁠the St Petersburg oil ⁠terminal, an oil depot and industrial warehouses.

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

Ukrainian drone producer Fire Point said on Sunday that the Ukrainian military had struck ⁠a VK data centre near St ​Petersburg.

Russian air defence units downed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

Russia is ⁠constantly responding to Ukrainian attacks with systematic, large-scale strikes, the TASS news agency reported on Sunday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

"The Kyiv regime is resisting. ​But this cannot change the course ⁠of events," he said, answering a question about how ​Russia might respond to Kyiv's ‌attack on St Petersburg.

(Reporting by ​Reuters, additional reporting by Dan Peleschuk in Kyiv; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle and Christina Fincher)

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