Blazes ignite at St. Petersburg oil sites as Kyiv launches more than 1,000 drones at Russia - CBC

Ukraine launched drone strikes on St. Petersburg and the surrounding Leningrad region overnight on October 18. The attack appears to have been the largest in the region since the war began. In St. Petersburg, the strikes damaged an oil terminal at the port, the Ruchyi oil depot, an Ozon warehouse, a VK data center, the Vostochnaya electrical substation, a cable-stayed bridge over the Korabelny shipping channel, and an addiction treatment hospital on Vasilyevsky Island. Residential buildings and dozens of cars across the city and the surrounding region were also damaged. One St. Petersburg resident was killed, and 15 others in the city and the region were injured. Meduza has compiled photos and videos showing the aftermath of the attack. St. Petersburg oil terminalOzon warehouseVK data centerRuchyi oil depotBridge over the Korabelny shipping channelResidential complex in NovoselyeSt. Petersburg the morning after the attackAt Meduza, we are committed to transparency about our use of artificial intelligence in the newsroom.

At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government forces, making it the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September. The attack on al-Alam camp in the southern Shabwa province was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and described as a disaster by the country’s UN-recognised government. The injured were taken from the police and army training camp in the Jardan district to a hospital in the local capital, Ataq, where pleas for blood donations were made. There will be an inquiry into how so many troops were left so exposed to a Houthi attacks. In mid-September, the group began a fresh push on forces backing the UN-recognised government by pushing south along the Red Sea coast to try to take control of the Bab al-Mandab waterway. Reliable assessments of the death toll in the fighting over the last month are hard to gather, but it is running into the many thousands. A Saudi airstrike on Sunday killed nine, including five children and two women.

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