{"id":346738,"date":"2026-06-06T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=346738"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:52:17","slug":"ukraine-renews-drone-attack-on-putins-home-city-after-he-turns-down-peace-talks-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/ukraine-renews-drone-attack-on-putins-home-city-after-he-turns-down-peace-talks-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine renews drone attack on Putin’s home city after he turns down peace talks | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ukraine has launched a drone attack on Vladimir Putin\u2019s home city \u2013 a day after the Russian leader refused a proposal to fulfill Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People living in St Petersburg were told to barricade themselves inside in the course of the large-scale aerial assault.<\/p>\n

Although no casualties were reported, the renewed attack on Russia\u2019s second-largest city is the most recent embarrassing blow to Putin\u2019s efforts to distance the war from Russian each day life.<\/p>\n

Zelensky underscored Kyiv\u2019s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia, writing on X: \u2018It’s time to end this war. But Russia\u2019s ruler wants to maintain fighting. <\/p>\n

\u2018Last 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. <\/p>\n

\u2018Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for his or her precision.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the St\u00a0Petersburg\u00a0International Economic Forum \u2013 an event dubbed \u2018Russia\u2019s Davos\u2019 \u2013 Putin said he saw \u2018no point\u2019 in meeting the Ukrainian leader (Picture: Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone\u00a0strikes on one another in recent months as US-led diplomatic efforts to finish the war, now in its fifth yr, remain\u00a0stalled over the conflict within the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Ukraine fired a whole bunch of drones at Russia early Saturday, leaving one person dead and setting an oil depot ablaze on the ultimate day of the country\u2019s flagship economic forum in St\u00a0Petersburg.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0strikes come a day after Putin rejected Zelensky\u2019s proposal for a gathering.<\/p>\n

Russian air defences intercepted a complete of 376 drones \u2018over Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Oryol, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, and Tula regions, Moscow region, Crimea Republic, Abkhazia Republic, and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas\u2019, the Russian defence ministry said.<\/p>\n

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St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov issued a rare call for residents to\u00a0stay indoors in the course of the attack.<\/p>\n

The attacks sparked a fireplace at an oil depot within the southern town of Ust-Labinsk, while drone debris killed a person within the western Tver region, in keeping with local officials.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the St\u00a0Petersburg\u00a0International Economic Forum (SPIEF) \u2013 an event dubbed \u2018Russia\u2019s Davos\u2019 \u2013 Putin said he saw \u2018no point\u2019 in meeting the Ukrainian leader until a possible peace deal had been agreed.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister Andriy Sybiga heaped further criticism on the Russian leader.<\/p>\n

\u2018Putin lost\u00a0his likelihood to get out of his failed war,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Russia will\u00a0still have to just accept a diplomatic solution however the terms will probably be far worse.\u2019<\/p>\n

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin \u2018wants to maintain fighting\u2019 (Picture: EPA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A whole lot of hundreds have been killed since Putin launched his full-scale offensive \u2013 which he calls a \u2018special military operation\u2019 \u2013 in February 2022.<\/p>\n

Swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine have been destroyed and tens of millions forced from their homes within the four-year campaign Moscow hoped would have toppled Kyiv inside a matter of days.<\/p>\n

Russia renewed its\u00a0strikes on Ukraine early Saturday.<\/p>\n

In southern Ukraine, authorities found the bodies of two men who had been unaccounted for following an attack on Zaporizhzhia, in keeping with regional governor Ivan Fedorov.<\/p>\n

Russian drone and artillery attacks in Ukraine\u2019s central Dnipropetrovsk region killed one person and left three others wounded, regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n

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