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AFU Drones Attack Key Russian Torpedo And Underwater Weapons Developer

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AFU Drones Attack Key Russian Torpedo And Underwater Weapons Developer

The consequences of a new strike on St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region became known.

A few hours after Vladimir Putin's statement at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum about the need to strengthen Russian air defense, Ukrainian drones (hit a number of objects in St. Petersburg and other regions https://charter97.org/ru/news/2026/6/6/686730/). On the night of June 6, drones attacked, as Astra writes, the Research Institute of Marine Thermal Engineering in Lomonosov, a key developer of naval underwater weapons, including torpedoes. St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov asked residents not to leave their homes and said mobile internet was blocked due to the massive attacks. In Peterhof, drones, judging by the footage of rising smoke, attacked the local oil depot (has 11 tanks with a total volume of 8,000 cubic meters).

Kronstadt, where one of Russia's key military naval bases on the Baltic, was also hit again. According to Astra's analysis, the Kronstadt Sea Cadet Military Corps could have been attacked. Authorities then blocked off a street adjacent to the school. Over the Leningrad region, 141 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight, the region's head Alexander Drozdenko reported. He also confirmed "falling debris" in the Luzhsky, Volosovsky and Lomonosovsky districts. In the latter, an operative staff has been established. Ukrainian channels write about the fire and explosions on the territory of v/ч 81263 - 7082nd technical mine and torpedo armament base of the Navy. In addition, the Poltavskaya oil depot in the Krasnodar region came under attack, a large fire broke out at the facility.

Ukrainian monitoring channels and local authorities reported about it. The fire covered 5,000 square meters, tentatively, no one was injured. The oil depot has 28 tanks with a total volume of almost 15,000 cubic meters, which store AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline, as well as diesel fuel.

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