Ukrainian drones strike VK data center, Ozon warehouse and St. Petersburg oil sites

Ukrainian drones struck a VK data center located in Novosergievka, within the Leningrad Region, during the overnight hours of October 17-18, 2026. The same drone strike also hit an Ozon fulfillment center situated in Kolpino, part of St. Petersburg, and triggered a fire at the facility.

VK officials stated that the company’s services continued to operate normally, although users experienced connection difficulties and reported outages when attempting to access the VKontakte social networking platform. Ozon confirmed that a fire had broken out at its warehouse, and the company said there were no casualties resulting from the incident. Ukraine Today .org reported that the Ozon fulfillment center located in Kolpino covers an area of up to 79,000 square meters.

Ukraine Today .org reported that the attack caused damage to electrical distribution infrastructure across the Leningrad region, which left approximately 20,000 residents without electricity. Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenco announced an emergency power outage that affected about 20,000 people.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said that drones had attacked the city during the night. He said that fires had broken out at the oil terminal and at other infrastructure in four districts of the city. According to Astra’s open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis, the largest fuel terminal in St. Petersburg caught fire after the drone strike.

Ukraine Today .org reported that the Strumki oil depot in Krasnogvardeisky District, which has a capacity of 3,900 cubic meters and stores AI‑92, AI‑95 gasoline and diesel, also caught fire. Ukraine Today .org reported that a drone struck a cable‑stayed bridge on the Western High‑Speed Diameter approximately 4.5 kilometers from the Petersburg Oil Terminal, and authorities are currently assessing damage to the bridge.

Local authorities reported that the drone strikes resulted in at least one death and several injuries. Russia’s defense ministry said that its air defenses shot down 1,015 Ukrainian drones overnight.

The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed that its strikes hit a Roboavia drone development facility in Rostov Region and a missile brigade logistics depot in Bryansk Region. Ukraine Today .org reported that the attack follows previous Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers in the Vladimir, Ryazan and Kaluga regions and on a Sberbank data center in the Saratov region.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said that emergency warning systems failed to notify residents ahead of the strikes, with alerts arriving after the impacts or being delayed. “Since the American President announced the energy ceasefire a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times,” Zelensky, Cybernews