There were injuries and a driver was fatally hit by falling drone parts. It is the first civilian war death in Russia's northern metropolis. The black plumes of smoke from burning oil tanks and warehouses clouded the city.

And instead of showing the damage, the Rossiya news anchor drew the television audience's attention to one detail in particular: the combat drones had flown over the territory of the neighboring Baltic states towards St. Petersburg. He didn't say where they came from.

For the first time, the Ukrainian military fired drones specifically against a bridge. Ultimately, this is just a mirror-image reaction to previous Russian attacks on bridges over the Dnipro in Kyiv. Now the 622 meter long, eight-lane Korabelnyj Bridge in the mouth of the Neva, which was only completed in 2016, was hit. It connects districts that are far away from each other and separated by water.

While the state channels were silent, the people became aware of the disaster: "I heard explosions all night long," reported the resident of a high-rise building less than two kilometers from the oil terminal to the taz.

When she left the house a little later, she was met with a sight of destruction: at the other end of the huge block, there were gaps in the facade from broken windows, cars were full of shattered glass, and at one point in the yard there was a huge funnel gaping in the ground. At least the residents in this house were spared. On the Cosmonaut Prospect, however, a drone crashed directly into a residential building, causing injuries.