Ukrainian drones strike St Petersburg oil terminal and naval base hours before Putin’s economic forum

Ukrainian drones struck an oil terminal and a naval base near St Petersburg in the early hours of Wednesday, hours before President Vladimir Putin’s flagship annual economic forum was due to open in the city, in an attack designed to expose the vulnerability of Russia’s second-largest city and embarrass the Kremlin.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed his forces had struck the fuel terminal and also targeted a military facility in Kronstadt, an island near the city that houses...