Putin's strategic spinelessness on display — in drone-attacked St. Petersburg

© 2026 Peter Free

 

06 June 2026

 

 

Pravda got this right

 

Uniquely among international Russian media  — which have been curiously silent about the Ukrainian-NATO drone attacks on St. Petersburg — Pravda's  Lyuba Lulko had the following to say.

 

Here in excerpts, about President Vladimir Putin's persistent strategic ineptitude:

 

 

Ukrainian forces attacked the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and a military vessel in Kronstadt with drones.

 

Volodymyr Zelensky did not need a fortune teller to understand that the strike should come precisely on the opening day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to address the forum tomorrow, and a burning terminal provides an ideal image capable of causing concern not only for him but also for the many guests attending the event.

 

At the same time, the NATO Secretary General arrived in Kyiv by train at a railway station that remains untouched. Why? There is no answer to that question.

 

Meanwhile, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's military intelligence and designated in Russia as a terrorist and extremist, told Western journalists today that they "should not spend too much time thinking about the Oreshnik and similar systems because they are mostly demonstrative weapons."

 

To wipe the smug smile from his face, Russia cannot avoid adopting the Iranian model of military action — strikes against the Baltic states and Finland, which, according to a report by Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, manufacture drones for the Ukrainian armed forces and dispatch them from their territories to carry out attacks on the Leningrad Region.

 

© 2026 Lyuba Lulko, Thick Smoke over St. Petersburg Raises Unpleasant Questions to Russian Authorities, Pravda (03 June 2026)

 

 

Obviously so

 

Yet, Vlad the Strategy-Avoidant Slayer continues to sit on his Oligarchy-controlled hind end.

 

This so, despite having witnessed years of successful resistance to the Axis of Western Evil by the Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.

 

Not to mention — most pertinently in its equivalent national character — Iran's courageous ongoing military defiance to the Imperial United States.

 

 

When one allows a fear of nuclear war . . .

 

. . . to tie one's hands, everyone either dies at the hands of pillagers, or becomes enslaved.

 

 

The moral? — Putin is just as much a traitor . . .

 

. . . to his nation's military and economic interests, as President Trump is to our American ones.

 

 

Putin apologists mischaracterize unrealism and cowardice, as patience.

 

Just as Trump supporters mislabel braindead stupidity and psychotic delusion, as sightedness.

 

 

Both groups are existentially harmful to the nations they purportedly represent.