The congressional pushback follows Ukraine's Sunday drone barrage on St. Petersburg, which defied US demands to halt energy strikes seven days after Trump announced an energy ceasefire. Post-strike damage assessments show fires at the Petersburg Oil Terminal damaged three storage tanks, including one 15,000 cubic meter tank and two 10,000 cubic meter tanks, completely destroying one of them at the refined products port, which accounts for roughly 5% of Russia's pre-war product exports and up to 300,000 BPD of capacity. At the nearby Ruchyi fuel depot, one 5,000 cubic meter tank was destroyed and a 1,000 cubic meter tank was damaged, while NASA satellite data showed only normal flaring and no strike at the 350,000 BPD Kirishi oil refinery despite social media claims.
Russian users of the VK social network continued to report severe connectivity disruptions on Monday that left the platform unusable for some after drones damaged the roof and walls of its Novosergievka data center, which houses about 20,000 of the company's 60,000 servers next to the struck 330 kV Vostochnaya substation. Telegram and VK founder Pavel Durov said he built the facility 15 years ago, writing that "the walls are thick. But they couldn't protect it." The weekend raid, which killed one person and injured 15 across the Leningrad region, also burned more than 10,000 square meters of an Ozon logistics hub and damaged the surfaces of the Southern Fairway Bridge and the Finland Railway Bridge.