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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\n**Ukraine has launched a drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s home city – a day after the Russian leader refused an offer to meet Volodymyr Zelensky for peace talks.**\n\nPeople living in St Petersburg were told to barricade themselves inside during the large-scale aerial assault.\n\nAlthough no casualties were reported, the renewed attack on Russia’s second-largest city is the latest embarrassing blow to Putin’s efforts to distance the war from Russian daily life.\n\nZelensky underscored Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia, writing on X: ‘It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting.\n\n‘Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt.\n\n‘Russia 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 their precision.’\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nSpeaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum – an event dubbed ‘Russia’s Davos’ – Putin said he saw ‘no point’ in meeting the Ukrainian leader (Picture: Reuters)\n\nAn oil terminal ablaze in St Petersburg (Picture: east2west news)\n\nTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nMoscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war, now in its fifth year, remain stalled over the conflict in the Middle East.\n\nUkraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia early Saturday, leaving one person dead and setting an oil depot ablaze on the final day of the country’s flagship economic forum in St Petersburg.\n\nThe strikes come a day after Putin rejected Zelensky’s proposal for a meeting.\n\nRussian air defences intercepted a total of 376 drones ‘over 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’, the Russian defence ministry said.\n\nTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nSt Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov issued a rare call for residents to stay indoors during the attack.\n\nThe attacks sparked a fire at an oil depot in the southern town of Ust-Labinsk, while drone debris killed a man in the western Tver region, according to local officials.\n\nSpeaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) – an event dubbed ‘Russia’s Davos’ – Putin said he saw ‘no point’ in meeting the Ukrainian leader until a possible peace deal had been agreed.\n\nOn Saturday, Ukraine’s foreign minister Andriy Sybiga heaped further criticism on the Russian leader.\n\n‘Putin lost his chance to get out of his failed war,’ he said.\n\n‘Russia will still have to accept a diplomatic solution but the terms will be far worse.’\n\nPresident of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin ‘wants to keep fighting’ (Picture: EPA)\n\nHundreds of thousands have been killed since Putin launched his full-scale offensive – which he calls a ‘special military operation’ – in February 2022.\n\nSwathes of eastern and southern Ukraine have been destroyed and millions forced from their homes in the four-year campaign Moscow hoped would have toppled Kyiv within a matter of days.\n\nRussia renewed its strikes on Ukraine early Saturday.\n\nIn southern Ukraine, authorities found the bodies of two men who had been unaccounted for following an attack on Zaporizhzhia, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.\n\nRussian drone and artillery attacks in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region killed one person and left three others wounded, regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha wrote on Telegram.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Ukraine renews drone attack on Putin’s home city after he turns down peace talks"
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