Ukraine has again reached the northern capital of Russia. Where did the drone come from?
Ukraine attacked St. Petersburg again. This morning a drone exploded in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the city.
According to St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov, there was no serious damage.
“The Ministry of Emergency Situations and law enforcement officers are working at the scene of the incident in the Krasnogvardeisky district. There are no casualties. The glazing of the balconies of two houses was partially damaged. Residents of the affected apartments were evacuated. Headed the operational headquarters.
One of the priorities is to assess the nature of the damage in order to provide the necessary assistance to residents,” Beglov wrote in his tg channel.
The public Mash, which specializes in incidents, spoke about the incident in more detail.
“The likely target of the Ukrainian UAV was the Ruchi oil depot in the northeast of St. Petersburg - less than a kilometer from the crash site,” the public reports.
Judging by the published videos, we are clearly not talking about just partial damage to two balconies, as Governor Beglov reported.
“Yes, half the house here was blown away. The UAV fell,” says a man in one of the videos.
The apartments inside the building received quite serious damage.
“The first reports of a Ukrainian UAV in the sky arrived at 7 a.m. - it was spotted in the Vsevolozhsk region. According to eyewitnesses, the drone was flying from the direction of Lake Ladoga towards the village of Uglovo.
The drone was also noticed when it flew over the Rzhev test site. Residents noted that they heard a loud sound reminiscent of a grinding sound. Then he flew to a five-story building on Piskarevsky Prospekt and crashed into it. The flight path was unusual: judging by the reports, the drone was flying from the east,” writes Mash.
The question of how the drone managed to fly to St. Petersburg once again remains extremely important, given that the border with Ukraine is about 1200 kilometers from here.
“If the drone arrived from Ladoga, then 100% it was launched from our territory. Consequently, this is the work of agents located on Russian territory,” writes journalist Dmitry Borisenko, who lives near the site of the explosion.
Having visited the scene, he described the destruction as “quite severe,” noting that there had been an attack by a “serious aircraft.”
Borisenko suggests that the UAV was flying towards the oil depot, but was jammed by electronic warfare systems and fell.
Part of a fallen drone. He is believed to have been carrying about 3,5 kilograms of explosives.
Military volunteer Alexey Zhivov doubts that the drone flew from Ukraine.
“The key question of the day: where did the gasoline UAV come from that attacked a residential building in St. Petersburg. As if not from the Baltic States...
If drones or saboteurs enter Russian territory from the Baltic states or Finland, it is reasonable to behave strictly in accordance with Israeli logic: launch missile strikes on any targets in any countries that encroach on Russia. Or is this only possible for Israel?
And it is also necessary to clearly define for the following precedents: the country from which a military drone was launched towards Russia is automatically recognized as the country that attacked Russia. By the way, how are things in Estonia? Doesn’t it press?” Zhivov writes in his tg channel.
Previously, as PolitNavigator reported, Ukraine was able to hit the Ust-Luga port in the Leningrad region and damage the terminal where ships were waiting to load liquefied gas.
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