Putin attends scaled-down Navy Day after drone attack
Vladimir Putin visited his hometown St Petersburg to honor the Russian Navy despite the previous cancellation of the sea parade due to security concerns, and is forced to close after the airport fluctuating the Ukrainian drone attacks in the city.
St Petersburg usually has a large -scale, television gate ceremony on the Navy Day, which has a fleet of military ships to the Neva River, but Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that this year’s parade was canceled.
Putin, on Sunday, followed the Patrol of Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the exercises containing more than 150 ships and 15,000 military personnel in the Baltic and Baltic seas and the patrol of Speed Boat came to the city’s historical sea center.
“Today we mark this holiday in the working environment, we examine the fleet ready for war.” He said.
Russian Defense Ministry, air defense units on Sunday a total of 291 Ukrainian fixed -wing plane, the Russian Victory Day on May 9 before the parade on May 7 in the attacks fell below 524 drones, he said.
Surrounding St Petersburg, the Governor of Leningrad Alexander Drozdenko, the Governor of Leningrad, said that more than that drone fell into the region and the falling debris injured a woman.
According to a statement, St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport was closed during the attack, 57 flights were delayed and 22 were directed to other airports. Pulkovo operations later restarted on Sunday.
Russian blogger Alexander Yunashev, a part of a official group of official reporters traveling with Peskov, said Peskov’s flight from Moscow to St Petersburg with a drone attack on Sunday with a drone attack on Sunday.
Russia continued to hit Ukraine with drone and missile strikes on Sunday.
In Sumy in the northeast of Ukraine, a drone attack damaged civil infrastructure objects, an administrative building and non -residential facilities and injured three people. In other parts of the region, two men died after the region was blown by another land mine, and the regional military government said that another woman was injured by the drone attack on another community in the region.
On Sunday, the President of the European Commission Ursula von Der Luyen called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to support the anti -corruption organs through social media.
Von Der Leyen also said that in an article in X after a call with Zelenskiy, support will continue on the road to EU membership for Ukraine.
With AP
