{"id":4485,"date":"2026-07-04T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2026-07-04T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T17:58:33","slug":"ukraine-claims-attack-on-russian-energy-and-naval-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/07\/04\/ukraine-claims-attack-on-russian-energy-and-naval-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Claims Attack on Russian Energy and Naval Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St Petersburg: Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces carried out an overnight drone strike on a major oil terminal in St Petersburg, describing it as critical infrastructure that generates revenue for Russia&#8217;s war effort.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine also claimed to have targeted a key naval base of Russia&#8217;s Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt, located near St Petersburg.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St Petersburg Governor Aleksandr Beglov confirmed that the city came under a &#8220;massive&#8221; drone attack and acknowledged that the oil terminal was hit. He said no casualties were reported.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Ukrainian officials, the oil terminal is one of Russia&#8217;s largest petroleum facilities, with an annual production capacity of 12.5 million tonnes of petroleum products.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine says it has intensified long-range drone attacks on Russia&#8217;s energy infrastructure, claiming nearly 43 per cent of Russia&#8217;s oil refining capacity has been disrupted. That figure has not been independently verified.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian President Vladimir Putin recently acknowledged fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian attacks and signed legislation aimed at strengthening domestic fuel supplies.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governor Beglov said Russian air defences intercepted 72 Ukrainian drones over St Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region during the overnight attack.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Petersburg: Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces carried out an overnight drone strike on a major oil terminal in St Petersburg, describing it as critical infrastructure that generates revenue for Russia&#8217;s war effort. Ukraine also claimed to have targeted a key naval base of Russia&#8217;s Baltic Fleet in Kronstadt, located near St Petersburg. St Petersburg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}