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Residents of St Petersburg were told not to permission their homes aft a large-scale Ukrainian drone onslaught targeted Russia's second-largest metropolis connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) morning, underscoring Kyiv's increasing quality to deed heavy wrong Russia. The onslaught came a time aft Russian President Vladimir Putin refused an connection to conscionable his Ukrainian counterpart.
St Petersburg Gov. Alexander Beglov advised the residents not to spell extracurricular and warned of imaginable disruptions to mobile net service, portion determination Gov. Alexander Drozdenko said 141 drones were changeable down implicit the surrounding Leningrad region. Russia's Defence Ministry said its aerial defences changeable down 376 Ukrainian drones. “Last night, our drones covered a region of astir 1,000 kilometres to the St Petersburg region, to the force navy's arsenals and a basal successful Kronstadt,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected X.
Although nary casualties were instantly reported, the renewed onslaught connected St Petersburg is the latest embarrassing stroke to Mr. Putin's efforts to formed the struggle arsenic a distant lawsuit that doesn't impact Russian regular life. A Ukrainian drone onslaught acceptable ablaze an lipid terminal successful the city and deed a adjacent naval basal connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026), hours earlier the opening of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Mr. Putin's yearly showcase for investment.
Speaking astatine the forum, Mr. Putin said connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) that Russia volition fortify its aerial defences to antagonistic caller Ukrainian drone attacks, which person reached heavy wrong his state and formed a unreality implicit the lawsuit successful his hometown of St Petersburg.
Mr. Putin connected Friday (June 5, 2026) rejected a connection by Mr. Zelenskyy for a face-to-face gathering connected the 4-year-old conflict, saying helium sees “no point” successful it. Thursday's (June 4, 2026) letter, the archetypal nationalist connection Mr. Zelenskyy has written straight to Mr. Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine successful 2022, was a sweeping critique of the Russian leader's 26 years successful power, arsenic good arsenic immoderate taunts astir his age.
Responding to Mr. Putin's dismissal of the projected meeting, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) that things would “only get worse for Russia.” "Failures volition get much humiliating," helium wrote connected X, informing that determination are “no harmless places successful Russia that tin beryllium exempt” from Ukrainian long-range attacks, and that the strength of attacks “will proceed to grow.” With the beforehand enactment hardly moving arsenic swarms of drones hinder advances, some sides person sought an borderline by launching long-range strikes.
In Ukraine, 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 3 wounded overnight into Saturday (June 6, 2026) successful the Dnipropetrovsk region, arsenic Russian forces struck 3 districts astir 30 times with drones and artillery, determination caput Oleksandr Hanzha said. In Zaporizhzhia, 7 radical sought aesculapian attraction aft a Russian drone onslaught started a occurrence astatine a parking lot, according to determination caput Ivan Fedorov.
Russia targeted Ukraine overnight with 272 onslaught drones, and aerial defences changeable down 249 of them, the Ukrainian aerial unit said connected Saturday (June 6, 2026).
