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Ukrainian drones strike a St. Petersburg oil terminal ahead of Putin visit

drones strike a St. Petersburg oil terminal ahead of Putin visit ![A plumes of black smoke is seen over the port of St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, after a Ukrainian

Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg as Putin's flagship economic forum opens

Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg as Putin's flagship economic forum opens Ukraine has carried out a strike

Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg as ‘Russian Davos’ opens in city

drones buzzing noisily above St Petersburg’s skyline. “The Petersburg forum is opening with a nice plume of black smoke in the background after Ukrainian strikes

Putin says Russia will bolster air defenses in response to Ukrainian drone attacks

St. Petersburg's airport and authorities cut cellphone internet service to try to prevent drone attacks. Putin had scaled down Russia's annual Victory Day parade on May 9, fearing Ukrainian strikes

Zelenskyy calls for face-to-face negotiations in letter to Putin

Ukrainian drone attacks. “To our regret, some of them break through,” Putin said of the strikes. “Russia has an air defence system, we need to improve it, strengthen it, and we will do that

Zelenskyy discusses ‘urgent need to scale up’ air defences with key allies in London

strikes on targets inside Russia, including Vladimir Putin’s home city of St Petersburg. Long-range Ukrainian drones

Ukraine accused of killing four in occupied Crimea

strike on the outskirts of St Petersburg, hours before the opening of a major economic forum designed to attract foreign investment into the country. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian drones

‘They are isolated … they are alone’: Zelenskyy on Russia, Putin’s lies – and fighting back

Ukrainian border. Zelenskyy says the purpose of long-range strikes – which have seen drones buzzing above apartment blocks in greater Moscow and St Petersburg

Russian drone hits building storing spent nuclear fuel near Chornobyl

St Petersburg, as the city’s high-profile economic forum was winding up. Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its air defences had downed 500 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours, Interfax news

From AI to interceptors, Ukraine is trying to drone-proof its skies

drones. Ukraine has also been stepping up its own attacks on Russia. Recent strikes have caused massive fires at Russian oil refineries across the country and have reached major cities like St Petersburg and Moscow

Zelenskyy slams Russia as strikes kill 22 in Ukraine before announced ceasefire

strike drones at Ukraine overnight from Monday to Tuesday, including a jet-powered Shahed drone variant, the Ukrainian Air Force said. Air defense units stopped 149 drones and one missile, but others got through

Zelensky proposes face-to-face talks in open letter to Putin

Ukrainian president's letter came on the same day Putin was in St Petersburg, where a major economic forum is taking place. The previous day Kyiv had [launched a drone attack](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0e2vqd3j1vo)

Ukraine conducts large-scale drone strikes on Russia, killing 4 and wounding 12 others

drones had flown more than 500 kilometers (310 miles) from Ukrainian territory, and that Ukraine was "overcoming" Russian air defense systems concentrated in and around the capital. "Our responses to Russia's prolongation

Russian oil exports slump as Ukraine hammers ports and refineries

Ukrainian drone attack, according to Russian officials, in Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video released on April 20, 2026 [Reuters] After [repeated strikes](/features/2026/4/6/smell-of-war-comes-to-st-petersburg-as-ukraine-hammers-russian-refineries) on the Baltic

Putin remains uncompromising on Ukraine, but is public discourse on war changing in Russia?

drone strike across Ukraine. The attack came on the eve of the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum, an event designed to showcase Russia to the world. High-profile Western investors and politicians have long

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaching Victory Day ceasefire

drones since the ceasefire began at midnight local time (21:00 GMT Thursday). Ukraine also said Russia had continued to strike its positions since that time. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire

‘You can stop your war’: Zelenskyy’s open letter to Putin – in full

Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometres. As you know very well

Russia ignores Ukraine's unilateral ceasefire and attacks kindergarten

Ukrainian president said Russia had carried out "active hostilities and terrorist shelling", targeting the front line as well as firing dozens of drones and missiles at civilian areas. In the Sumy border region, one woman

Ukrainian drone hits upmarket Moscow high-rise ahead of Victory Day celebrations

St Petersburg in what the regional governor Aleksandr Drodzhenko said had been a "massive" attack. The residential building that was hit is located in an upscale neighbourhood in south-west Moscow, less than 10km

Ukraine summons Israeli ambassador over ‘stolen’ grain shipments

strikes against Russian oil The diplomatic quarrel occurred as Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery in the Black Sea, triggering a huge blaze and evacuations. Veniamin Kondratiev, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region