Putin will speak today in St. Petersburg on the occasion of the so-called Russian Davos. And right on St. Petersburg, Ukraine has launched a massive offensive, where the Kremlin is hosting the international summit. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (Spief) – once nicknamed “the Russian Davos” – ends today with the speech of the Russian president and Kiev has attacked the metropolis on the Neva every day precisely to demonstrate the vulnerability of the regime in front of its most faithful allies.
Putin will speak at Russia’s Davos
“Eighty-six drones were shot down over the Leningrad region. Combat operations continue,” said Aleksandr Drozdenko, the region’s governor.
On the first day of the summit, Ukrainian drones dealt a blow to the prestige of Moscow’s armed forces, hitting an oil complex and a military base in Putin’s hometown.
The budget of the Russian Ministry of Defense: 376 drones shot down
During the night, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced, anti-aircraft shot down a total of 376 Ukrainian drones “over the regions of Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Oryol, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver and Tula, in the Moscow region, in the Republic of Crimea, in the Republic of Abkhazia and on the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea”.
Nine drones, reported the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, were shot down while they were flying towards the capital.
Casualties and damage in southern Ukraine and Russia
In southern Ukraine, authorities found the bodies of two men missing following an attack in Zaporizhzhia.
One person was killed and three injured in Russian drone and artillery attacks in Dnipropetrovsk, and a fire broke out at an oil depot in the southern Russian city of Ust-Labinsk following an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles.