According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukraine tried to attack the oil terminal, but failed.
Russian Ministry of Defense argued on Thursday morning that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones.
One aircraft was dropped in the Moscow region, the other in the Leningrad region surrounding St. Petersburg.
In the morning, a Ukrainian military source confirmed that Ukraine carried out the drone attack on the St. Petersburg oil terminal, Reuters reported.
“Military targets in the St. Petersburg and Leningrad region are now within reach of the Ukrainian forces,” the intelligence officer told the Ukrainian Pravdan by.
It was not the first time that Ukraine has struck deep into Russian territory, but drone attacks on St. Petersburg have not been reported before.
Ukraine has reportedly carried out several drone attacks on Russian border towns and Ukraine has also announced that it is behind several sabotage attacks on Russia.
The wreckage of the plane also fell into the Gulf of Finland
Fontanka’s data according to the report, the airplane would have flown about 900 kilometers from Ukraine to St. Petersburg, where the radio electronic jamming systems would have been activated and stopped the airplane.
According to media reports, the plane would have crashed into the Gulf of Finland.
If the claims are true, the plane would have passed unnoticed at least the regions of Briansk, Smolensk, Tver and Novgorod.
Ukrainian of RBK’s data according to which the drone would have flown Vladimir Putin I ruled over the residence. The villa is located in the Novgorod region, about 200 kilometers from St. Petersburg.
Claims that the drone was shot down from Ukrainian soil have not been independently confirmed.
So Ukrainian guerrillas as well as Russian resistance fighters may be behind the attacks.
Founder of Military Russia website Dmitry Kornev said, according to Fontanka, that the range of modern large-sized Drones may well be around 700-800 kilometers.
47 news – news site, the wingspan of the St. Peter’s drone would have been six meters and it could have had a TNT equivalent charge of up to three kilograms.
The regions of Russia north, west and south of Moscow are densely covered with research. It is known that there is also an anti-aircraft cannon in the area of Putin’s Valdai residence.
According to Fontanka, the authorities in St. Petersburg received information about the approaching plane from Tver, located 500 kilometers away.
According to the experts interviewed by Fontanka, avoiding the probes would have required a huge amount of intelligence from Ukraine about their location.
However, the experts interviewed by Venäläislehti think it more likely that the drone moved to St. Petersburg near the surface of bodies of water, such as rivers.
Radars usually don’t work below 10 meters, so low-flying drones can go unnoticed.
Photographic evidence is exhausting
Several social media sites, such as war follower Baza and the Russian governor of SHOT St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov said on Thursday morning that the attack did not cause any injuries.
Later also a representative of the St. Petersburg oil terminal Mikhail Skigin said the St. Petersburg native Fontanka according to which “extensive destruction was avoided.”
According to Skigin, there was no fire, no personal injuries, and no equipment damage in the oil terminal area.
– It is really unlikely that something serious would have happened. Our oil tanks are double walled and the tanks are spaced far apart, Skigin said.
However, a representative of the oil terminal admitted that traces of an explosion were found near the crash site.
Source: Reuters