Ukrainian forces strike oil terminal in St Petersburg with annual capacity of 12.5 million tonnes – video

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF), together with other units from the defence forces, struck the St Petersburg Oil Terminal on the night of 2-3 June.

Source: SOF on Telegram; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter)

Details: The SOF said that its deep strike units, together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), the Unmanned Systems Forces, Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) and the State Border Guard Service, hit one of the largest oil terminals on the Baltic Sea, located in the port of St Petersburg.

The military reported that a series of drone strikes caused large-scale fires at the facility.

The SOF said that the terminal has 31 storage tanks with a total capacity of 324,000 cubic metres. Its annual throughput capacity is 12.5 million tonnes. The terminal handles crude oil, petroleum products, liquefied natural gas and other liquid chemical substances.

Meanwhile, the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which Russia describes as its equivalent of the World Economic Forum in Davos, is set to begin in St Petersburg on 3 June.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that important facilities on Russian territory had been hit and described the results of operations carried out by the SSU, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the SOF, DIU and the State Border Guard Service as "good results of long-range sanctions".

Quote from Zelenskyy: "Among them was the Petersburg Oil Terminal. The distance from Ukraine's state border to this facility of Russia's oil industry, which serves the war, is about 1,100 km."

Background: A fire broke out in St Petersburg following an attack by dozens of drones, with Telegram channels reporting that an oil terminal is on fire.

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