Smoke billowed over St Petersburg this weekend, after Ukrainian drones struck the city’s oil terminal. In Moscow, long queues formed at those petrol stations that were still open.
The increasing frequency and accuracy of Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes have caused Russia’s biggest fuel crisis in decades. It has also created a growing sense that the momentum in the war has changed. Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said last month: “We, the Germans, the UK, the French all are of the view that the tide has turned . . . Putin is going to lose.”