Russia Says St Petersburg Hit by Major Air Attack as Ukraine Accuses Moscow of Breaching Energy Truce

St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said on Sunday that a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on the city killed at least one person and wounded five others.

According to Beglov, firefighters were working to extinguish blazes at the St Petersburg oil depot, the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses in the Kolpino district in the south of the city. He added that several residential buildings and two private homes were also hit.

City authorities announced that operations at St Petersburg's main airport — one of the busiest in Russia — were disrupted and that flights were being restricted "for safety reasons," according to Beglov.

Russian e-commerce company Ozon said its logistics centre in St Petersburg caught fire, while internet firm VK reported that a data centre in the Leningrad region was struck by drones, though services remained normal for users.

Leningrad region Governor Alexander Drozdenko said 145 drones were shot down and about 20,000 residents lost power after the air attack. Russian state news agency TASS reported it was the largest attack on the region in four years. Russia's Defence Ministry claimed it had neutralised 1,015 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Russian strikes kill two

On the Ukrainian side, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that Russian forces had struck residential buildings overnight, killing two people and wounding 12, including two children.

"This morning, there was an attack on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn. All necessary services are working at the scene," he wrote. He also said that over the past week Russia had attacked Ukraine with nearly 2,700 drones, 1,700 aerial bombs and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic.

The developments come after Zelenskyy said during the week that Kyiv would resume strikes on Russian refineries, arguing he was defending a country at war amid waning US support. He told the UK's Financial Times that Kyiv had "ended" its compliance with the "energy truce" unilaterally announced by US President Donald Trump and would resume attacks in retaliation for Russian strikes.

Energy truce under strain

President Trump announced an immediate "energy truce" between Russia and Ukraine last week, but Zelenskyy insists Moscow keeps violating the agreement.

"Since the US president announced the energy truce a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy and oil and gas sector 76 times," he wrote on X on Sunday. "In the past night alone, there were attacks on substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Odesa regions," he said, adding that tens of thousands of households remained without power while energy workers and repair crews worked nonstop to restore supply.

Zelenskyy also argued that the main targets of Moscow's recent strikes were energy facilities, as the Russians try to "cause large-scale blackouts." "America should see that Russia has made no reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements," he said.

President Trump is also facing criticism in both Europe and the US after signing an executive order on Friday to exempt sanctions and tariffs targeting Moscow's energy revenues. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that Trump's exemption would be a pause to "analyse" their impact on the global economy.

"The president wants to take a 60-day period to analyse what imposing both sanctions and tariffs would mean for the global economy and even the US economy," Rubio said, noting that the economic restrictions involve many countries, not only Russia. Trump said late on Saturday that his decision would benefit the US. "We'll figure it out, and you'll understand. This is a very good decision, and it will be a good decision for the country, and I think good for the world," he said.