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A Ukrainian drone attack struck an oil terminal in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Russian officials said, as Kyiv presses on with bombardment of Russia\u2019s oil infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Almost daily long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities have created a fuel crisis <\/span> and heaped political pressure on the Kremlin as its all-out invasion of Ukraine<\/span> stretches into its fifth year.<\/p>\n

Gov. Alexander Beglov said the city\u2019s Kirovsky district on the Baltic Sea was hit. He also said that air defenses shot down 72 Ukrainian drones across Russia\u2019s second-largest city and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as part of Ukraine\u2019s \u201clong-range sanctions\u201d against Russia. He said that Ukrainian forces also hit a military target on the island of Kronstadt, just off the coast of St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ukrainian defense forces hit the port oil infrastructure, which earns money for the Russian war, and there were also hits on Kronstadt \u2014 an important military target,\u201d he said in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n

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St. Petersburg\u2019s Kirovsky district was previously hit in June, ahead of Russia\u2019s flagship St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.<\/p>\n

The Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, has suffered particularly from heavy strikes, causing local authorities to suspend gasoline sales to civilians. A Ukrainian attack on Saturday killed one person and injured two more, including a 10-year-old child, the Moscow-installed Gov. Sergei Aksyonov said.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian attacks bring the war home<\/h2>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin has shrugged off Ukraine\u2019s strikes<\/span> on Russia\u2019s energy facilities as \u201cnot critical,\u201d and insisted the war will continue<\/span> until his goals are met.<\/p>\n

He has described the attacks on Russian energy as an effort by Ukraine to distract attention from its losses on the battlefield, although analysts say the advance of Russian forces has been stymied in recent months<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Putin visited the Russian military headquarters directing the war in Ukraine and received a report on the capture of the city of Kostyantynivka, after weeks of intense street battles. He hailed it as a key step toward capturing the nearby cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the key remaining strongholds in the so-called \u201cforest belt\u201d of heavily fortified cities in the Donetsk region that remain in Ukraine\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

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The capture of Kostyantynivka, a big transport and industrial hub, is of \u201cmajor strategic importance,\u201d Putin, clad in military fatigues, said in televised comments. <\/p>\n

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