Military expert and retired Navy Captain First Rank Vasily Dandykin said the Ukrainian drones that attacked St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region may have flown through the Baltic states.

He noted that the drones have a range of more than 2,000 kilometers and suggested that their route could have run along the border and through the Pskov region. Dandykin said Ukrainian forces launch drones at night, allowing them to remain airborne for many hours, although some are intercepted before reaching their targets.

Speaking to NEWS.ru, he said that most of the drones are shot down and estimated the interception rate at up to 98%. He also pointed to attacks targeting Moscow, as well as interceptions over the Bryansk and Kaluga regions and the outer Moscow area.

On the night of October 18, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region came under a large-scale drone attack. One person was killed and nine others were injured.

In St. Petersburg, an oil terminal and an Ozon warehouse were damaged. In the Leningrad region, a VK data center was hit, while damage was also reported in Gatchina and near Kirovsk.

In the Kirovsk district, falling drone debris caused fires at two homes in the Temp and Voskhod-2 gardening communities. Dozens of vehicles were also damaged in parking areas in Novoselye and Nizino in the Lomonosov district.