Residents Of St. Petersburg Have Turned Off The Internet And Told Not To Go Outside

Due to a massive Ukrainian drone strike.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov has urged city residents not to leave their homes due to a massive raid by Ukrainian drones. "On the morning of June 6, St. Petersburg was subjected to a large-scale attack by military drones. Air defense means are at work. In accordance with the recommendations of the Operational Headquarters, I ask St. Petersburg residents to stay in their homes and do not go outside," he wrote in his channel in the blocked Telegram at half past eight in the morning. According to the city authorities, three people were injured in the attacks.

At this background, the authorities canceled the Sails of Kronstadt festival. This was announced in the Committee for the development of tourism in St. Petersburg, drew attention in the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR). The festival was to be held on June 6-7 on the territory of the "Island of Forts".

Beglov also warned citizens about possible "mobile Internet outages" and promised to separately notify about "elimination of air danger". By 12:00, the governor did not provide additional information. According to the monitoring resource Downdetector, mobile Internet in St. Petersburg began to be actively jammed around 3:40. The number of complaints about the lack of connection began to decline by 11:00, but the total number of reports about failures amounted to almost 3 thousand for the day.

In comments, St. Petersburg residents write that the Internet is absent for the third day, since the beginning of the SPIEF on Wednesday, and even "white lists" do not work. On the "Disruption.rf" portal, St. Petersburg ranks second in the number of complaints about blockages over the past 3 hours, second only to Moscow.

A number of facilities, including, presumably, the Kronstadt Sea Cadet Corps, were hit in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region as a result of a nighttime AFU drone raid. Authorities then blocked entry and exit from the city, home to one of Russia's key naval bases on the Baltic, which was already hit by a Ukrainian strike on Wednesday, for about an hour.

The head of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, said the "unprecedented attack" by drones had caused "minor damage" in a number of districts in the form of shrapnel-strewn house facades and glass. The governor confirmed a fire "at a Defense Ministry facility" in the Lomonosov district and announced "partial evacuation of residents from the area near the fire."

In the morning, Ukrainian monitoring resources reported a fire and explosions on the territory of h/h 81263 - the 7082nd technical mine and torpedo armament base of the Navy in Bolshaya Izhora. According to Drozdenko, no one was injured.

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