{"id":302655,"date":"2026-06-10T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:11:49","slug":"ukraine-targets-st-petersburg-in-what-russia-calls-an-unprecedented-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302655\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine targets St. Petersburg in what Russia calls an \u2018unprecedented\u2019 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/p>\n

Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks early Saturday against Russian military facilities near St. Petersburg, including a naval base in Kronstadt.
\n The strikes hit targets 600 miles from the Ukrainian border on the last day of an international forum, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
\n It\u2019s the second time in the past few days that scores of Ukrainian drones have targeted the Leningrad region.<\/p>\n

\n AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/p>\n

\n Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks against Russian refineries and military facilities around the city of St Petersburg on Saturday, in what one Russian official described as an \u201cunprecedented\u201d attack.\n <\/p>\n

\n Targets included naval facilities, as well as oil depots and terminals, the Ukrainian military said.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s the second time in the past few days that scores of Ukrainian drones have targeted the Leningrad region, where St Petersburg is situated. Russia said it downed about 60 over the region early on Wednesday, hours before the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) \u2013 often dubbed Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s version of Davos.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cA total of 141 UAVs have been shot down over the Leningrad Region,\u201d said Aleksandr Drozdenko, the regional governor, describing it as an \u201cunprecedented attack.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLast night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region \u2013 to the enemy navy\u2019s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday.\n <\/p>\n

\n Kronstadt is the main base, repair and supply hub for Russia\u2019s navy in the eastern Baltic and also has a naval academy. A Russian warship in dock there was struck by a Ukrainian drone on Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n The town of Kronstadt was closed to traffic for several hours Saturday, according to the official news agency TASS.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSt. Petersburg came under a large-scale attack by military drones,\u201d the city\u2019s governor, Aleksandr Beglov, posted on Telegram on Saturday, saying three people had been injured.\n <\/p>\n

\n Drozdenko said efforts continued to extinguish a fire in a village called Bolshaya Izhora, where more than 600 people had been evacuated. CNN geolocated video of thick plumes of smoke rising from a location in the area, which houses a Russian naval arsenal.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Zelensky also said that Ukraine\u2019s \u201clong-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region \u2013 and hit an oil depot,\u201d posting videos of large fires in both Krasnodar, in southern Russia, and Kronstadt.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAt least three tanks containing petroleum products are engulfed in flames,\u201d claimed Ukraine\u2019s security service (SBU). \u201cThis oil depot is a vital rear-area hub for the storage and supply of fuel to Russian troops in the southern and eastern sectors.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The strikes came two days after Zelensky sent an open letter to Putin, urging him to end the countries\u2019 four-year war, as the Russian leader was preparing to address the forum. Putin responded with dismissiveness, calling the letter \u201crude\u201d and voicing skepticism about Zelensky\u2019s true intentions. The Ukrainian president can \u201ccome to Moscow\u201d if he wants to talk, a Kremlin spokesperson said.\n <\/p>\n

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Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting with Putin\n <\/p>\n

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Zelensky proposes face-to-face meeting with Putin<\/p>\n

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\n Ukraine appears currently to have the upper hand<\/a> in some areas along the front lines of the war.\n <\/p>\n

\n The timing of Zelensky\u2019s letter \u2013 in the middle of the event<\/a> where Russian billionaires schmooze with political leaders and decision makers \u2013 was seen as no coincidence. The Russian economy is struggling and Zelensky is hoping he can capitalize on rising disquiet among business elites.\n <\/p>\n

\n Russian emergency services acknowledged Saturday that a fire had broken out at the oil depot in Krasnodar. They said dozens of people had been evacuated and more than 50 pieces of fire-fighting equipment were deployed to combat the fire.\n <\/p>\n

\n Some 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) away, regional authorities reported a fire at the Tyumen oil refinery in the Urals.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe fire broke out in one of the purification units as a result of a technical malfunction,\u201d the authorities said. \u201cReports that the fire was caused by a drone attack are untrue.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Kyiv has stepped up attacks<\/a> on key Russian oil infrastructure in recent months, firing hundreds of long-range drones, squeezing fuel supplies and compounding the economic strain on residents.\n <\/p>\n

\n Both sides regularly launch hundreds of drones at each other\u2019s territory at night but Ukrainian long-range drones have become increasingly effective in targeting Russian energy facilities, military bases and factories.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Ukrainian military said Russia had launched 272 drones overnight Friday into Saturday, of which 249 were intercepted. There were impacts at 11 locations, the air force said.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary Ukraine launched extensive drone attacks early Saturday against Russian military facilities near St. Petersburg, including a naval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-302655","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\/302655","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=302655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}