Ukraine renews drone attack on Putin’s home city after he turns down peace talks

St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov issued a rare call for residents to stay indoors during the attack.

The attacks sparked a fire at an oil depot in the southern town of Ust-Labinsk,while drone debris killed a man in the western Tver region,according to local officials.

Speaking at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) – an event dubbed ‘Russia’s Davos’ – Putin said he saw ‘no point’ in meeting the Ukrainian leader until a possible peace deal had been agreed.

On Saturday,Ukraine’s foreign minister Andriy Sybiga heaped further criticism on the Russian leader.

‘Putin lost his chance to get out of his failed war,’ he said.

‘Russia will still have to accept a diplomatic solution but the terms will be far worse.’

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin ‘wants to keep fighting’ (Picture: EPA)

Hundreds of thousands have been killed since Putin launched his full-scale offensive – which he calls a ‘special military operation’ – in February 2022.

Swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine have been destroyed and millions forced from their homes in the four-year campaign Moscow hoped would have toppled Kyiv within a matter of days.

Russia renewed its strikes on Ukraine early Saturday.

In southern Ukraine,authorities found the bodies of two men who had been unaccounted for following an attack on Zaporizhzhia,according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.

Russian drone and artillery attacks in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region killed one person and left three others wounded,regional governor Oleksandr Ganzha wrote on Telegram.

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