A column of black smoke is seen over the port of Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, following a Ukrainian drone attack. AP Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia, was the target of a Ukrainian drone attack during the early hours of this Saturday (4). A local port and oil terminal were hit. The information is from the Reuters news agency. St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said the city of 6 million people was the target of a "large-scale" drone attack that hit its oil terminal. According to him, there were no victims, and the consequences of the attack have already been controlled. Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the neighboring Leningrad region, said a drone struck the port area of ??Vysotsk, about 170 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea. The port handles oil, grains, coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG). Drozdenko said that 72 drones were shot down over the region and that there was light damage in several villages. He did not say what impact the attack had on the port of Vysotsk. In a post on Telegram, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated: "Ukraine's defense forces hit the port oil infrastructure that generates revenue for Russia's war and also attacked Kronstadt, an important military target located more than 850 kilometers from the Ukrainian border." Russia has not confirmed that Kronstadt, an important naval base near St. Petersburg, was hit. Ukraine had already attacked the base in a previous offensive in June. Zelenskyy publishes video of drone attack on oil terminal in St. Petersburg Offensive This year, Ukraine intensified attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, causing significant damage to refineries and contributing to gasoline shortages in different regions of the country. Russian state agency TASS reported that President Vladimir Putin sanctioned, this Saturday, changes to the tax code aimed at supporting the domestic fuel market. The measures include tax incentives for the production of high-octane gasoline through fuel blending. In the city of Gatchina, in the Leningrad region, a Reuters witness saw long queues at gas stations on Friday, with some establishments completely out of fuel. A resident waiting in line, identified only as Gennadiy, told Reuters: "Queuing after work is definitely not fun and in a few days I will have to queue again because I will run out of gas again." Elsewhere, the governor of Bryansk and the Russian-installed governor of Crimea reported that drone strikes killed one person in each location and injured several. South of St. Petersburg, the governor of the Pskov region reported that more than 30 drones were shot down overnight. According to him, there was minor damage and some injuries, including at a factory in the city of Velikiye Luki.