We're looking at the conflict between the Kremlin, Moscow, and Kiev.

Going on now for years, however, it's turned a new page, the drone wars.

For this, we have a report from Petersburg in these last days.

Reuters, Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in St. Petersburg and a warship in Dry Dock at a nearby naval base.

Hours before Vladimir Putin's showcase economic forum got underway in the city in a clear attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief.

The attack on Putin's home city, writes Reuters, location of his own Davos's, a glitzy annual

economic form designed to attract foreign investment, comes as both sides, dial-up strikes against

each other in their more than four-year-old war with no end in sight. And I told, I come to you on

this because visiting Petersburg once in my life

in 85 towards the end of the Cold War, it's an imperial city that feels not entirely populated.

It's a vast landscape built over centuries by the Tsars, by the court, and lots of roads and bridges that are just expansive

of a Russian empire, what was once upon a time. Striking Petersburg, though, seems more than

just the ability to reach that far from Ukraine, if that's where the drones were fired. It suggests that this

is meant to humble, not Vladimir Putin, but the Russian image of itself as an empire, as ruling

an empire fairly. Was it taken that way in Russia? Did they see this as a blow to their reputation?

Well, I mean, yes, the fact that the Ukrainian drones could penetrate Russian air defenses

in this way is certainly a blow. And I don't know whether to Russia's image of itself. I mean, you know, Russia has

suffered a great deal worse than this in its history. But certainly to the prestige of the Putin

administration, you know, which launched this war, also, you know, on the promise of protecting

Russia against NATO expansion and, of course,

has actually vastly increased the dangers to Russia. So, yes, I mean, this is a bad blow. And one of the

dangerous aspects of it, I mean, the Russians haven't said this yet or claimed this,

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