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Ukraine has carried out one of its largest drone attacks of the war, launching more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight into Sunday and setting an oil terminal and depot on fire in St. Petersburg in defiance of President Trump’s demands that it stop hitting Russian energy sites.
Getting into it: Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it downed 1,015 Ukrainian drones across 15 regions, as well as over Crimea and the Black Sea. In St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, the strikes set off blazes at the Petersburg Oil Terminal, which handles up to 12.5 million tons of oil products a year, as well as the Ruchi oil depot and industrial warehouses, leaving at least one person dead and five injured, according to Gov. Alexander Beglov.
Drones also hit a logistics hub, a data center run by tech giant VK, disrupted flights at the city’s main airport and left about 20,000 people in the surrounding region without power. A Ukrainian drone also strayed into Lithuania and damaged a car, prompting an apology from Kyiv, which said Russian electronic warfare may have knocked it off course. Russia, meanwhile, kept pounding Ukraine, with attacks killing 11 people and injuring nearly 50 in 24 hours, according to Ukrainian officials.
In a statement following the attacks, Zelensky wrote, “America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements.” He also noted that Russia has struck Ukraine’s energy grid 76 times since Trump announced his energy ceasefire a week ago.
This led to Trump taking to social media and defending his Friday order suspending sweeping Russia sanctions. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he doesn’t want to “drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table” and added, “I can sign it later, or any time that I want!” He also claimed Zelensky “doesn’t want to end this war.”
Zelensky told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the US had resumed sharing intelligence with Ukraine after it was “blocked for some period of time,” and said taking Moscow’s side would be a “historic mistake,” adding “we can’t compare me and Putin. He’s aggressor.”
This all comes as Zelensky says Ukraine still can’t use Starlink or Starshield to shoot down jet-powered Shaheds because of the 100 mph speed cap. The cap has led to bipartisan outrage, with both republicans and democrats in the house and senate vowing invesitgations into who ordered the restriction, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said nobody did and that it “sort of happened.”






