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

St Petersburg. Long-range Ukrainian drones hit [an oil terminal and a nearby naval port](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/ukraine-drones-st-petersburg-russia-economic-forum) this week, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. The attacks began hours before the start

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

St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, his annual showcase for investment. Hours before the forum opened Wednesday, a Ukrainian drone attack set ablaze an oil terminal in the city and also hit a nearby naval base

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

St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin’s annual showcase for investment. Hours before the forum opened on Wednesday, [a Ukrainian drone attack](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/03/ukraine-drones-st-petersburg-russia-economic-forum) set ablaze an oil terminal in the city and also

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

oil terminal in St. Petersburg and set it ablaze, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as the Russian city hosted an annual international economic forum promoted by President Vladimir Putin. [![Night attack on capital aftermath

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

St Petersburg, setting fire to oil terminals and sending smoke billowing above the skyline. Similar attacks have crippled occupied Crimea. A key supply road is littered with burning lorries and tankers and the peninsula seized

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

Petersburg oil terminal, the Kronstadt base and a factory producing weapons in the Tambov region. Zelenskyy noted that the oil trans-shipment facility, one of the largest on Russia’s Baltic sea coast, was about

Ukraine accused of killing four in occupied Crimea

attacks inside Russia, too. On Wednesday, it carried out a 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

Ukraine summons Israeli ambassador over ‘stolen’ grain shipments

attacks are part of Ukraine’s long-term [campaign](/features/2025/9/18/ukraine-strikes-choke-off-russian-oil-exports-and-fuel-supplies) against Russia’s oil infrastructure that [escalated](/features/2026/4/24/russian-oil-exports-slump-as-ukraine-hammers-ports-and-refineries) starting in late March. In recent weeks, Ukrainian [drones struck](/features/2026/3/27/ukraine-fends-off-increased-attacks-strikes-russian-oil-revenue) Russia’s Ust-Luga and Primorsk