{"id":624401,"date":"2026-06-06T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:38:09","slug":"ukrainian-drones-target-st-petersburg-in-attack-russia-calls-unprecedented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624401\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones target St Petersburg in attack Russia calls ‘unprecedented’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zelesnky posted on social media on Saturday to say it was “time to end this war”, but accused Russia’s leader of wanting to “keep fighting”.<\/p>\n

He said his country’s drones had covered a distance of 1,000km (620 miles) to the St Petersburg region, targeting “the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt”, referring to the main outpost of the Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet.<\/p>\n

Drozdenko said Ukraine’s attacks caused a fire at an unspecified military facility, and that residents were being evacuated. He also said buildings sustained “insignificant” damage.<\/p>\n

According to Zelensky, an oil depot 500km (310 miles) away, in the southern Krasnodar region, was also hit as part of Ukraine’s “long-range sanctions” – a euphemism for strikes on Russia.<\/p>\n

These latest attacks follow Ukrainian strikes<\/a> on the outskirts of St Petersburg as Putin’s flagship economic forum was getting under way just days earlier.<\/p>\n

The major forum, designed to attract foreign investment into the country, drew thousands of guests from 130 countries, including a low-key US delegation.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Zelensky called for a ceasefire and face-to-face negotiations with Putin to end the war, which began with Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. <\/p>\n

He wrote in an open letter that it would be “wrong to simply wait” for the conflict to once again come to the attention of the US.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the economic forum on Friday, Putin refused the request for a meeting and reiterated his position that a truce would only allow Ukraine to regroup.<\/p>\n

He said he would only end the war when Russia’s goals had been met.<\/p>\n

Russia’s longstanding position is that Ukraine should withdraw from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as abandon efforts to join Nato.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has refused to give up any territory, arguing that concessions to Moscow would embolden it to invade again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelesnky posted on social media on Saturday to say it was “time to end this war”, but accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-624401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}