The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service (GUR) conducted a special operation during which drones attacked an oil depot in the Saint Petersburg area at night. A source from the special services reported this to the Ukrainian media. The drone strike shows that “military facilities in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region are within reach of Ukrainian forces,” the source added. “It was not the first time” that Ukrainian drones attacked the region, “but this time there are differences and the enemy felt them,” the source said.
The Russian Defense Ministry had already stated that a Ukrainian drone was intercepted in the early hours of the morning in the Leningrad region, which surrounds Saint Petersburg. Ukrainian intelligence services, cited by national media, reported that another drone attack targeted a gunpowder “mill” in Tambov, 600 kilometers south of Moscow. But, according to Governor Maxim Yegorov, the plant is operating normally. Instead, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the shooting down of another Ukrainian drone on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. The wreckage of the aircraft, according to Russian authorities, fell on the premises of the city’s oil terminal.
Meanwhile, the European Union is considering launching a “thirteenth package” of sanctions against Russia, coinciding with the second anniversary of the start of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, which will take place on February 24. A European diplomatic source explains this, with a view to next Monday’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels. However, it is “too early”, he admits, to know what it will contain and what the next moves will be.
Source: IL Tempo
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