Ukrainian drones hit an oil depot and an oil export facility in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sunday, setting the facilities on fire as Ukraine continues targeting Russian oil infrastructure despite President Trump claiming he’s opposed to such attacks.
Aleksandr Beglov, the governor of St. Petersburg, said on Telegram that one person was killed and five others were injured by the Ukrainian attack. He said that 12 apartment buildings and two private homes were damaged in the attack and that there were fires at the Petersburg oil terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot.
While Trump has expressed opposition to Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, the strikes are known to be supported by US intelligence, and there’s no sign that support has been suspended since the attacks continue. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed the US deliberately reduced Ukraine’s Starlink capability last week, and Reuters reported that the White House ordered the throttle, but US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied those claims.
“I don’t know what Zelensky said, I’m not sure Zelensky knows what he’s talking about, but it wasn’t deliberate,” Rubio said on Saturday. “We had nothing to do with that. I don’t, the United States, nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down. It sort of happened, but my understanding is it’s been restored, it’s back to what it was before.”
Rubio also denied that Ukraine ever had access to the US military’s version of Starlink, known as Starshield, but had requested it. “Starshield is a contract with the US military, it has nothing to do with Ukraine. I know Ukraine wants access to Starshield, they do not have Starshield now. They’ve asked for access to it in order to conduct deep strikes inside of Russia. They do not have access to it at this moment. Those are two different products,” he said.
Regarding the Ukrainian attacks on Sunday, Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of the Leningrad Oblast, the region that surrounds St. Petersburg, said that 135 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over Leningrad, making it one of the largest attacks on the region of the war. According to Russia’s TASS news agency, the largest attack occurred on June 6, 2026, when Russian forces intercepted 144 drones.
The attacks on St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast were part of a major Ukrainian attack on Russia that involved more than 1,000 drones. The Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces shot down 1,015 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions and the Black Sea.
Russian attacks also continued in Ukraine on Sunday, with strikes in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia killing a woman and injuring two, including a six-year-old, according to The Associated Press. The Russian Defense Ministry said that its strikes included attacks on “military industry enterprises, energy infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the AFU, as well as ships involved in the delivery of military cargo to Ukraine.”
