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<\/p>\nSummary<\/p>\n
Russia says Ukraine launched a major drone assault over multiple regions including St Petersburg.
\n A major economic forum is getting underway in St Petersburg, often dubbed Putin’s version of Davos.
\n The attack comes a day after Russia launched a wave of deadly strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 23 people.<\/p>\n
\n AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/p>\n
\n Russia said it downed hundreds of drones over its territory, including about 60 over the Leningrad region Tuesday night, in a Ukrainian attack as a major economic forum gets underway.\n <\/p>\n
\n Saint Petersburg governor Aleksandr Beglov said three districts were targeted as part of an overnight Ukrainian drone assault that wounded several people and damaged infrastructure facilities.\n <\/p>\n
\n Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed more than 350 Ukrainian drones over territories both close to the border but also as further afield as Moscow, St Petersburg, and Novgorod in the country\u2019s west, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.\n <\/p>\n
\n In Smolensk, a city in western Russia close to the Belarus border, Ukraine launched strikes on \u201ccritical infrastructure facilities,\u201d Smolensk governor Vasiliy Anokhin said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Two firefighters were killed \u201cwhile fighting a fire caused by debris from a downed enemy drone,\u201d Anokhin said, adding that two other firefighters and one civilian sustained minor injuries.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky said \u201clong-range strikes\u201d struck \u201ckey targets\u201d including the St Petersburg oil terminal, one of the largest oil transshipment complexes in northwestern Russia.\n <\/p>\n
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\n Other targets included \u201cmilitary targets at the Kronstadt base,\u201d an island naval port near St Petersburg, and a facility in the Tambov region that Ukraine said was involved in the production of Russian weapons, Zelensky added.\n <\/p>\n
\n Zelensky also posted footage showing explosions and several fires at one Russian facility and a huge plume of thick, black smoke rising behind a high-rise building.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ukraine this year has rapidly developed its medium and long-range drones<\/a> to attack Russian targets, including Moscow\u2019s oil facilities<\/a> and other locations far beyond the frontlines.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cUkraine\u2019s plan for long-range strikes is being carried out exactly as needed to bring peace closer,\u201d Zelensky said.\n <\/p>\n \n The attacks came as the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, or SPIEF, a major business event known as Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s version of Davos, gets underway in the city on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n \n The airspace around St Petersburg international airport was restricted on Wednesday morning, leading to delays of around two dozen flights, the airport said in a statement.\n <\/p>\n \n It also comes a day after Russia launched a lethal barrage<\/a> on Ukraine early Tuesday, hitting the capital Kyiv and the central city of Dnipro in a broad-ranging offensive<\/a> that inflicted one of the deadliest attacks for months.\n <\/p>\n \n At least 23 people were killed in the overnight assault, including seven people in Kyiv and 16 others in Dnipro, according to Ukrainian authorities.\n <\/p>\n \n United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said he \u201cstrongly\u201d condenmed the attacks, in which more than 600 drones and dozens of missiles, were fired on Ukraine, according to the military, hitting key civilian infrastructure.\n <\/p>\n \n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Russia says Ukraine launched a major drone assault over multiple regions including St Petersburg. A major economic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-294111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}