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  "excludes": "Quoted source passages and linked articles remain the copyright of their publishers; they are included as short quotations for verification. Linked media and satellite images remain the rights holders' property; no image or video licence is granted by this dataset. Fonts (SIL OFL) and map data (Natural Earth, public domain) keep their own terms. City and region names in automatically published dossiers are checked against GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0). Drone drawings and animations are schematic illustrations of a type, not evidence about any incident."
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 "locationNote": "lat/lon are the dossier's own approximate coordinates (see locationPrecision) and are empty when the incident location is unknown. referencePoint {lat, lon, level, name} is a display reference only: a fixed point in the named city (GeoNames), region (its administrative seat), sea or country (Natural Earth label point), derived at build time. It is not a geolocation, not an estimate of the incident location and may change when the dossier's place becomes more precise: reference point; incident location unknown.",
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  "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23345422",
  "note": "Citable weekly snapshot (CSV + JSON) archived on Zenodo; this DOI always resolves to the latest version."
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  "id": "saint-petersburg-drone-attack-2026-10-18",
  "title": "Governor reports fatal drone attack and fires in Saint Petersburg",
  "place": "Saint Petersburg",
  "country": "Russia",
  "countryCode": "RU",
  "date": "2026-10-18",
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  "scope": "single",
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  "impactStatus": "reported",
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  "summary": "Media reported a drone attack on Saint Petersburg during the night into 18 October 2026. The city governor reported one person killed, five injured and fires at oil facilities and industrial warehouses. NOS also reported a data centre hit.",
  "impact": "The city governor reported one person killed and five hospitalized, with fires at an oil terminal, an oil depot and industrial warehouses. These are involved-party official claims; the figures are not independently verified. Data-centre damage is reported by NOS, which says the company confirmed it.",
  "evidence": "Interfax directly relays the city governor's casualty and fire statement. NOS separately reports the attack, press photographs of smoke and company confirmations concerning logistics/data-centre facilities. The official casualty figure has one governor origin across these publications; editorial agreement is not independent casualty verification.",
  "unknown": "The exact event time, drone count and operator are not independently established. City and Leningrad-region counts and casualties must not be combined. The coarse city marker is not a facility or impact location. The existing 17 October Fontanka dossier covers the preceding night into 17 October and is retained as a separate event.",
  "attribution": "The governor attributes the attack to Ukrainian forces. No independent operator assessment is made.",
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    "url": "https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1123253",
    "published": "2026-10-18",
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    "url": "https://nos.nl/artikel/2635507-tien-burgerdoden-in-oekraine-dat-zelf-grote-drone-aanval-op-rusland-uitvoert",
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    "quote": "один человек погиб, пять пострадали и находятся в больницах",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/saint-petersburg-drone-attack-2026-10-18/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Governor reports fatal drone attack and fires in Saint Petersburg”, dossier saint-petersburg-drone-attack-2026-10-18, revision 1, updated 2026-10-19. https://droneincidents.com/incident/saint-petersburg-drone-attack-2026-10-18/",
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    "date": "2026-10-19",
    "at": "2026-10-19T06:16:58.382+00:00",
    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
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