There is widespread coverage in the western media of the latest Kiev drone attack on Russian oil facilities, this time the oil terminal adjacent to St. Petersburg. For example, Deutsche Welle quotes Ukrainian acting president Volodymyr Zelensky post on social media: “Ukraine’s defense forces struck port oil infrastructure that generates revenue for Russia’s war, and also hit Kronstadt, an important military target more than 850 km (528 miles) from Ukraine’s state border.”
Starting a few hours after the Saturday-morning attack on St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reported a warning to the nearby Baltic states, by Russian Deputy Foreign Ministry Mikhail Galuzin. Said Galuzin, who last year took part in Moscow’s direct negotiations with Kiev, “We have verified evidence that Latvia and other Baltic republics have already provided air corridors for Ukrainian drones to attack civil infrastructure in our country. If Riga naively supposes they can take part in the Kiev regime’s provocations and terrorist attacks on our citizens without consequences for themselves, imagining they are protected under NATO’s umbrella, they are profoundly mistaken.”
