News card: Russia says it downed 57 Ukrainian drones over Leningrad region; video shows fires near St. Petersburg's port

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Russia says it downed 57 Ukrainian drones over Leningrad region; video shows fires near St. Petersburg's port. File photo from November 2024 (Vasilii Martynov, Wikimedia Commons, CC0): an aerial daytime view of St. Petersburg's port, with cranes, docks and the Gulf of Finland behind rows of apartment blocks; not from Oct 18. Key facts: overnight into Sunday Oct 18, air alert from 1:30 AM Moscow time; Leningrad region governor Alexander Drozdenko says 57 drones were shot down; debris damaged 4 parked cars in Nizino and a fire broke out; Rosaviatsia says Pulkovo airport halted arrivals and departures; monitoring channels say the port was targeted, which the Kyiv Independent cannot verify. Sources: RIA Novosti, Kyiv Independent, Komsomolskaya Pravda via Mail.ru, Mezha. exeindex.com/military. Record dispatch:2026-10-18-ru-spb-port-drones. @exeindex. — File, Nov 2024: aerial view of the Port of St. Petersburg · not from Oct 18. Photo: Vasilii Martynov · CC0 via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY 4.0 EXE Index

Oct 18: Russia says it downed 57 Ukrainian drones over Leningrad region; debris hit 4 cars and sparked a fire, the governor says. Pulkovo halted flights. Video shows fires near St. Petersburg's port, unverified.

What: News card: Russia says it downed 57 Ukrainian drones over Leningrad region; video shows fires near St. Petersburg's port
Where: Europe
When: 2026-10-18
Source: RIA Novosti
Credit: File, Nov 2024: aerial view of the Port of St. Petersburg · not from Oct 18. Photo: Vasilii Martynov · CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
License: CC0 (Wikimedia Commons); card CC BY 4.0 EXE Index
Details: Europe, Russia (RU) / Ukraine (UA)

military Russia (RU) / Ukraine (UA)Europe

Sources and credit

RIA Novosti
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