Ukraine is ten days into campaign to pressure Moscow toward peace: Russia’s Baltic oil gateway took hit overnight

Ukrainian strikes hit multiple Russian targets overnight into 4 July. The main target, according to OSINT Telegram channel Exilenova+, was a St. Petersburg-area maritime petroleum-products transshipment terminal, described as one of Russia’s largest Baltic export facilities.

The multi-target overnight strike falls within a Ukrainian 40-day operation to press Russia to end the war, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy approved on 25 June in a meeting with acting Security Service chief Major General Yevhenii Khmara.

Ukraine has not officially confirmed the 3-4 July strikes at the time of this report, and no independent damage assessment is available.

St. Petersburg Baltic oil terminal: main claimed target

Photos and video circulating on social media in the early hours of 4 July show the impact at the port area of St. Petersburg, with a fire visible at what Exilenova+ identifies as a maritime petroleum products transshipment terminal. 

Ukraine has struck Russian Baltic oil infrastructure repeatedly in 2026. Ukrainian drones and cruise missiles hit the Primorsk oil terminal on 22-23 March, the NOVATEK gas processing complex at Ust-Luga on 24-25 March, and the KINEF Kirishi refinery on 26 March. At that time, three strikes in four days halted 40-50% of Russian petroleum export capacity through the Baltic.

Primorsk was struck again on 3 May 2026 alongside three Russian vessels docked there, in what became Ukraine’s heaviest deep-strike month of 2026, with 18 Russian oil and gas facilities hit that month per Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense.

Chuvashia Flamingo sighting

Local resident videos in Chuvashia, whose capital Cheboksary hosts Russian military production, showed missiles that Exilenova+ identified as Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missiles.

Cheboksary’s VNIIR-Progress plant produces Comet anti-jamming satellite navigation antennas used by Russian missiles and drones striking Ukraine, and Ukraine struck that facility in May 2026. The region is located roughly 800 kilometers from the Ukrainian border 

The Flamingo (FP-5) is Ukraine’s domestically produced long-range cruise missile developed by Fire Point, with a claimed 3,000-km range and 1,000-kg warhead. 

In occupied Luhansk city, meanwhile, explosions and a secondary detonation, consistent with an ammunition storage hit, were reported in the Kambrod district overnight.