Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, were told not to leave their homes after a "large-scale" Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city Saturday morning, underscoring Kyiv's growing ability to hit deep inside Russia, a day after the Russian president refused an offer to meet his Ukrainian counterpart.
St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov advised the residents not to go outside and warned of possible disruptions to mobile internet service, while Regional Gov. Alexander Drozdenko said 141 drones were shot down over the surrounding Leningrad region.
Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 376 Ukrainian drones.
"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," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote of the attack on X.
