Ukraine hits major oil terminal in 'massive' overnight drone attack on Russia's St Petersburg

Ukraine hits major oil terminal in 'massive' overnight drone attack on Russia's St Petersburg Ukraine has struck a major oil terminal in St Petersburg in north-west Russia as it intensifies its long-range drone attacks on the country's critical energy infrastructure Ukraine has struck a major oil terminal in St Petersburg as it launched a "massive" overnight drone attack on Russia's second-largest city. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media on Saturday that his country's defence forces struck "port oil infrastructure that generates revenue for Russia's war" in St Petersburg and the surrounding region. He also claimed Kyiv struck the Kronstadt naval base in St Petersburg, which is around 528 miles from Ukraine's border. Ukraine has intensified its long-range drone attacks on Russia's critical energy infrastructure, claiming it has "disabled" nearly 43 per cent of Russia's oil refining capacity. It comes after after a Russian strike on Kyiv overnight into Thursday killed 30 people. It was the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian this year. St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said his city came under a "massive" drone attack and admitted the oil terminal was hit. He said there were no casualties. Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the surrounding Leningrad region, said a drone had struck the area of Vysotsk port, without providing any information on the impact. Moscow vowed to respond, saying it downed almost 500 Ukrainian drones and 10 of Kyiv's Flamingo missiles overnight. In a separate development on Saturday, Ukraine denied Moscow's announcement that Russian forces had captured the strategic Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, a stronghold for Kyiv's troops in the eastern Donetsk region and a key target for the Kremlin. A Ukrainian army spokesman told the AFP news agency that the city remained under its control, while Zelensky dismissed Moscow's announcement as "a lie". "The situation remains difficult," Ukrainian army spokesman Andriy Kovalyov said, but Kostyantynivka "is under the control of the Ukrainian Defence Forces". On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, wearing a military uniform, thanked troops for seizing Kostyantynivka, a town with a pre-war population of 78,000 that Moscow has been trying to take control over for months. The army has been sending in small groups of soldiers to infiltrate and secure positions, a method previously used to capture the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in late 2025. Kostyantynivka is one of the final obstacles on the route to the major Ukrainian-held cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk; capturing them is the Kremlin's ultimate goal in the Donbas. Kovalyov said on Saturday that "Ukrainian defenders continue to hold their positions along the designated defensive lines". He admitted that small groups of Russian troops have been infiltrating the town but insisted that fighting was ongoing. However, the Russian Defence Ministry said: "Russian troops are in all parts of the town - from the southern to northern outskirts." Zelensky called the claim "just another Russian lie". "If Kostyantynivka were under Russian control, then perhaps Putin would have no problem meeting me there to find a diplomatic way to finally end this war," the Ukrainian leader said on social media. Putin has repeatedly turned down talks with Zelensky to end more than four years of war, saying Moscow intends to capture the rest of eastern Ukraine by force.