A big fire broke out at the oil-loading port in St Petersburg after the attack, at a site that stores and ships petroleum products for export. Fuel storage of that kind burns fiercely once it catches, which explains the scale of the blaze. The port is an export gateway, so the damage reaches beyond the property lost. Reports from the city also describe strikes on a data center and on an electrical substation. Those two targets put digital services and the power grid in the line of fire as well. Taken together, the hits touched export capacity and the infrastructure a city runs on. The fires drew the label 'spectacular' because of how the burning port looked. No full damage assessment has been included in the reporting so far.