Explosions heard in Russia's St. Petersburg this morning, media reports drone attack

Around 7 a.m., residents of the Russian city of St. Petersburg reported hearing explosions.

“A drone was shot down in St. Petersburg on October 19. According to the information provided, the UAV was shot down by air defense forces. There are no threats to the population,” the media says.

Residents also report that electricity was cut off in the Vyborgsky and Primorsky districts of St. Petersburg.

“The lights started flashing, the TV image disappeared, then there were three blasts,” "something crashed and the electricity was cut off," "there is a hum in the wasteland (where Shuvalavsky Prospekt is supposed to go - ed)," wrote locals, some even claiming that paintings were falling from the walls.

Explosions could be heard even in the dachas near the Orlovsky quarry.

Power engineers said that there was an alleged technological failure at the 110 kV equipment. According to Fontanka, almost three hundred buildings in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg were left without electricity. The buildings have been without power for more than two hours.

The moment of the explosions in St. Petersburg was posted online. The video was filmed by residents of a village in the Leningrad region. Local authorities are silent about the attack.

Drone attacks on St. Petersburg

This is not the first drone attack on St. Petersburg. On the night of January 31, a drone attacked the territory of the Nevsky Oil Refinery in St. Petersburg. The operation was carried out by the Defense Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

In March, the major port of St. Petersburg stopped transshipment of nitrate amid drone attacks. After the attack, local authorities said that in the future they planned to move the transshipment of nitrate outside the city, presumably to Ust-Luga.