Drones Attacked St. Petersburg: The City Is In Smoke

• 3.06.2026, 7:43

A major oil terminal has been hit.

Strike drones attacked Russia's St. Petersburg on the morning of June 3, where a local oil terminal was hit. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which runs through June 6, will begin there today, "Focus" writes.

The sky above the city was engulfed in thick black smoke, seen in a video released by the monitoring telegram channel Exilenova+.

"St. Petersburg, there was an attack on the St. Petersburg oil terminal," the monitors said.

Russian publication Astra conducted its own OSINT analysis and confirmed that UAVs hit the largest oil refining complex in northwestern Russia - JSC St. Petersburg Oil Terminal.

"ASTRA analyzed numerous fire footage provided by eyewitnesses and concluded that the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal JSC in St. Petersburg was attacked and on fire," the publication said.

The journalists emphasized that the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum begins today in the city, which will be visited by foreign businessmen, among others.

As ASTRA calculated, from the oil terminal, which was hit by drones, to "Expoforum", where the economic forum will be held - about 17 kilometers.

It is noted that the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal is one of the largest Russian terminals for transshipment of oil products in the Baltic region, a modern specialized transshipment complex and the largest stevedoring company of the Big Port of St. Petersburg today.

On its territory with a total area of 37 hectares there are 21 tanks for storage of light and dark oil products. Throughput capacity is 12.5 million tons per year. "Petersburg Oil Terminal" is recognized as an enterprise of strategic importance for the security of the Russian Federation.

The governor of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko reported the shooting down of 50 drones, but did not comment on the defeat of the oil terminal in St. Petersburg.