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Ukrainian drones strike oil terminal in St. Petersburg before city hosts Russian economic forum 27%
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6/3/2026, 1:26:56 AM
Topics: Russia Ukraine War, Drone Surveillance And Warfare, Military Technology, St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Keywords: Vladimir Putin, Drone Surveillance And Warfare, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, St Petersburg, Mark Rutte, Ukraine, Military Technology, Russia Government, War And Unrest, Kyiv, Moscow, Russia Ukraine War, Russia Ukraine Petersburg Oil Terminal Putin Drone, Business, Denis Pushilin, Vasily Anokhin, Robert Brovdi, Dmitry Peskov, Ukraine Government
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Ukrainian long-range drones struck an oil terminal in St.
Petersburg and set it ablaze, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, sending smoke billowing over the city where Russian President Vladimir Putin was born as it hosts Russia’s leading event for attracting foreign capital.
The drones flew more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to hit the terminal in Russia’s second-largest city, Zelenskyy said on social media, a day after Moscow launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
Russian authorities said only that the Ukrainian drone strike targeted St.
Petersburg’s infrastructure, without providing details.
The city’s airport briefly suspended flights overnight because of the attack.
Authorities cut off mobile internet services.
The strikes on St.
Petersburg came a day after Russia’s attack on Ukraine killed 23 civilians and wounded 151 other people, as Moscow followed through with its threat of escalating its barrages.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that Russia’s deep strikes have already taken on a “systematic” character.
Ukraine’s drone attacks are aimed at diminishing Russia’s oil production, which is a key source of funding for Moscow, and disrupting weapon production.
Kyiv has repeatedly targeted oil facilities in St.
Petersburg and nearby ports.
But Ukraine is short of American-made Patriot air defense missiles, in part because of U.S. stocks being depleted by the Iran war, leaving Ukrainian territory vulnerable to Russia’s ballistic missiles.
Zelenskyy on Wednesday expressed frustration with his own government’s officials, saying there’s an agreement “at the highest political level” for the purchase of Patriot systems, but implementation is being held up by financial, legal and technical considerations.
“The wait has taken too long,” he said on social media, demanding that officials unblock the purchase or there will be “serious personnel decisions.”
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, visiting Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with Ukrainian officials, said the flow of interceptor missiles from the U.S. to Ukraine continues.
The U.S. is “doing what it can” to keep supplying them although it is limited by the production rate, he told a news conference.
Rutte also said young Russians and their families “are being sold a raw deal” by Moscow, as incorporation in the Russian military dooms soldiers to poor training and equipment and low chances of surviving battlefield wounds.
Other Ukrainian drone attacks overnight set fire to the Russian guided-missile corvette Boikiy, which was in dry dock at the Kronstadt naval base, according to Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces.
Kronstadt is an old base for Russia’s Baltic Fleet located west of St.
Petersburg.
Satellite images showed fire crews working to control the fires onboard.
Drones also hit a Russian manufacturing plant involved in weapon production in the Tambov region, 600 kilometers (370 miles) from Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 354 Ukrainian drones overnight.
In the Russia-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, a Ukrainian strike hit a bus that was traveling from Moscow to the Crimean Peninsula, killing seven people and wounding 11 others, according to the Kremlin-appointed head of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin.
In the Smolensk region, two firefighters were killed by a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the regional governor, Vasily Anokhin.
He said that two other firefighters and a local resident were wounded.
Meanwhile, Russia fired 198 long-range drones at Ukraine last night, according to Ukraine’s air force, with air defenses neutralizing 189.
Authorities in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region said that over the previous 24 hours, one civilian was killed and 15 more were wounded, including three children, by Russian strikes.
In the southern Kherson, Russian overnight shelling and drone strikes killed an 86-year-old woman and wounded five other people, according to regional authorities.
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