Following a Ukrainian drone strike that set fire to an oil terminal in Leningrad Oblast ahead of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 3, local residents and pro-Russian military bloggers have increasingly voiced doubts over whether even Russia’s largest cities can still be considered safe.
“The business elite in St. Petersburg can now see firsthand how the Russian Defense Ministry is eroding their share of the so-called ‘social contract,'” a Russian military blogger known by the nickname Reporter Filatov wrote on his Telegram channel.
“We should have foreseen the obvious and honestly predicted such raids two years ago.”
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