Ukraine war live updates: Russia says Kyiv attacked Moscow, St Petersburg regions, claiming Baltic oil terminal was the target

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Russia claimed that Ukraine attacked several Russian regions with drones overnight, including the northwest Leningrad region for the first time.

The defense ministry said Thursday that air defense systems shot down drones over the regions of Moscow and St. Petersburg, with one official claiming Ukraine targeted a Russian oil terminal in Leningrad, the northwestern Russian region where St. Petersburg is located. The port infrastructure was not damaged and no one was injured, the official said.

Kyiv has not publicly commented on the claims. If accurate, however, it would mark the first time that the northern region of Leningrad, where St. Petersburg is, has been targeted by Ukraine.

"The geography of UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to expand," one Russian official noted.

The governor of the border Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a woman was injured and several houses and electricity and gas supply lines were damaged during a Ukrainian attack on the village of Myasoedovo near Belgorod.

Russia's Defense Ministry said Thursday that air defense systems shot down drones over the regions of Moscow and St. Petersburg overnight, with one official claiming Ukraine targeted a Baltic oil terminal.

"On January 18, at about 01:30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles against objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped," the ministry said in a statement, as reported by state-run news agency Tass.

"On duty air defense systems, one unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the