A Russian Geran 2 kamikaze drone flies, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 16 April 2026;
Credit: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
MOSCOW (Reuters) - On Saturday 18 April 2026, Ukrainian drones struck a pair of industrial sites along the Volga River, as well as a Baltic Sea port close to St Petersburg that exports petroleum products, Russian local governors said overnight.
In the Leningrad region, which surrounds St Petersburg and borders Finland, governor Alexander Drozdenko said that a fire had been extinguished at the Vysotsk port, which houses a terminal operated by Lukoil handling the export of fuel oil, naphtha, diesel fuel and vacuum gas oil.
The Samara region governor Vyacheslav Fedorischev confirmed attacks on industrial targets in the cities of Syzran and Novokuibyshevsk, around 1,800 km to the southeast of Vysotsk.
He did not name the facilities, but both cities host oil refineries that have been repeatedly struck in the course of the war in Ukraine.
