{"id":298410,"date":"2026-06-06T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298410\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:55:09","slug":"ukraine-takes-aim-at-st-petersburg-putins-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298410\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine takes aim at St. Petersburg, Putin&#8217;s hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since spring, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ukraine\/t-17295382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> has increasingly shaped the war through a tech-driven defensive approach. Using domestically produced\u00a0long-range weapons, Ukraine is now able to strike targets deep inside Russian territory with greater autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russia\/t-19065060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a> has stepped up its attacks on Ukraine, causing widespread damage and civilian casualties. Analysts interpret the less-discriminate strikes as an attempt to regain the initiative and signal resolve.<\/p>\n<p>But can this apparent shift influence the overall trajectory of the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russias-war-in-ukraine\/t-60931789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a>, rather than just its short-term dynamics? And does Ukraine realistically have a chance of regaining occupied territories?<\/p>\n<p>Former diplomat Tim Willasey-Wilsey discusses &#8220;a critical moment&#8221; in Russia&#8217;s war on Ukraine, which launched a second large-scale drone attack on St. Petersburg on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since spring, Ukraine has increasingly shaped the war through a tech-driven defensive approach. Using domestically produced\u00a0long-range weapons, Ukraine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-298410","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\/298410","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=298410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}