Ukraine strikes St Petersburg oil terminal, naval base as Putin's 'Davos' gets under way

By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 3 (Reuters) - Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in St Petersburg and a warship in dry-dock at a nearby naval base, hours before Vladimir Putin's showcase economic forum got under way in the city, ‌in a clear attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief.

The attack on Putin's home city, location of his own 'Davos' - a glitzy annual economic ‌forum designed to attract foreign investment - comes as both sides dial up strikes against each other in their more than four-year-old war with no imminent end in sight.

The Kremlin said Russia ​would keep striking Ukraine systematically in response to such attacks, part of what it has described as a new "paradigm" in the conflict.

Unspecified "infrastructure objects" had been attacked in three districts of Russia's second-biggest city and home to over 5 million people, Alexander Beglov, its governor, said. Air defenses shot down 59 Ukrainian drones overnight, Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the surrounding Leningrad region, said.

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