With SPIEF underway downtown, St. Petersburg’s outskirts balance summer weather and a burning oil terminal as residents try to shrug off Ukraine’s latest drone strike

On the morning of June 3, Ukraine launched a large-scale drone strike on the St.

Petersburg region, injuring several people — the exact number was never disclosed — and hitting an oil terminal and infrastructure facilities in Kronstadt.

The Leningrad region’s governor, Alexander Drozdenko, said 59 drones were shot down over the region that day.

A correspondent for the independent journalism cooperative Bereg visited the neighborhoods hit by the strikes and filed this report from the city in the aftermath of the attack, which came on the opening day of the St.

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