Ukrainian drones hit Saint Petersburg | Flipboard

Flipboard · 🇺🇦 public Ukraine · Jun 03, 2026 · 292 words · By DW English; Reuters

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Ukrainian drones hit Saint Petersburg Ukraine has been stepping up long-range strikes as the war grinds on, with Russia's northerly second city now hit.

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What happened

Ukrainian drones hit Saint Petersburg Ukraine has been stepping up long-range strikes as the war grinds on, with Russia's northerly second city now hit.

Why it matters

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: FBI Director Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a [stock investment].

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “FBI Director Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a [stock investment]”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that FBI Director Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a six-figure purchase of stock in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence company, raising STOCK Act questions.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charlie Kirk, an American right-wing political activist, was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah on September 10, 2025, while speaking at an outdoor campus debate planned by Turning P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Charlie_Kirk

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Epstein files are a partially released collection of millions of documents, images, videos, and emails related to the activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epst…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel (born February 25, 1980) is an American lawyer serving since 2025 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Patel also served as acting director of the Bureau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel

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Claim 2: “Russia’s government has ordered the temporary closure of seven railway border checkpoints along its borders with Finland, Estonia and [Baltic States]”

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Wikipedia mentions Ukrainian drone incursions into the Baltic states and Finland in 2026, but there is no evidence in the provided text regarding the Russian government ordering the closure of seven railway border checkpoints.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Pl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Fleet

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In March and May 2026, several Ukrainian or suspected Ukrainian military drones entered the airspace of NATO member states in the Baltic region, including the Baltic states and Finland, after crossing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Ukrainian_drone_incursion…

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Claim 3: “the aircraft he accepted as a gift from Qatar, designated the VC-25B Bridge, flew as Air Force One”

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The claim is repeated in Flipboard cross-references, but Wikipedia only describes the VC-25B as a military conversion of a Boeing 747-8 without mentioning it was a gift from Qatar. The Flipboard entries are the only sources for the 'gift from Qatar' detail.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Air Force One is the official air traffic control-designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. The term is commonly used to denote U.S. Air …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Boeing VC-25B Bridge is a military conversion of a single Boeing 747-8 airliner, serving as an interim Air Force One presidential transport to complement the United States Air Force's aging VC-25A…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the second presidency of Donald Trump during the second quarter of 2026, from April 1, 2026, to June 30, 2026. To navigate between quarters, see timeline of the Donald T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_second_Trump_p…

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Claim 4: “The FBI director invested up to $250,000 in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence company”

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Web search results explicitly state that FBI Director Kash Patel invested up to $250,000 in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence company. Wikipedia confirms Kash Patel is the FBI Director since 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a United States federal law enforcement agency, and is responsible for its day-to-day oper…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_Federal_Bureau…

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Claim 5: “Manuls in Leningrad Zoo in St Petersburg. Saint Petersburg, Russia - June 26, 2026”

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The web search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant, discussing Facebook API and Open Graph tags, providing no information about Manuls or the Leningrad Zoo.

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web search NEUTRAL — 43 After hours of trying I've finally found a solution. Delete any app on the website of Facebook (developers.facebook.com) Delete the file debug.keystore under C:\Users\yourUserName\.android Generate…
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20301025/facebook-key-ha…

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web search NEUTRAL — Well i have not tried this in PHP, as per the facebook they have removed option in API to return source for the video, so i got it working using Python ;)
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 23, 2012 · Facebook fetches all pictures from my site. I want to share only one picture which is on that page. I heard about the og meta tag, but I don't know how to put it.
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Claim 6: “Ukrainian drones hit Saint Petersburg”

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The claim is reported by multiple independent news sources including Flipboard, ABS-CBN News, and France 24, all confirming Ukrainian drone strikes in Saint Petersburg around June 3, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — Ukrainian drones hit Russia's St Petersburg area. Ukraine has carried out a strike on the outskirts of Russia's St Petersburg, hours before the opening of a major economic forum designed to attract fo…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0e2vqd3j1vo

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web search NEUTRAL — SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - Ukrainian drones hit an oil complex and military base in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday as ministers and officials gathered for a flagship economic forum in Russia's second c…
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2026/6/4/ukrainian-drones…

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web search NEUTRAL — Ukrainian drones hit Saint Petersburg as 'Russian Davos' opens in the city.Des panaches de fumée noire s'élèvent au-dessus du port de Saint-Pétersbourg, en Russie, le 3 juin 2026, à la suite d'une att…
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260603-russia-ukraine-dr…

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Claim 7: “Zelenskyy cuts Irish visit short as intelligence warns of Russian massive attack”

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While the evidence confirms the identities of Trump and Zelenskyy and mentions a meeting in February 2025, there is no mention of a visit to Ireland or a shortened trip due to intelligence warnings in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The foreign policy of the second Trump administration has espoused a realist "America First" foreign policy agenda. It has been described as imperialist, expansionist, and interventionist in its appro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ireland–Ukraine relations are bilateral relations between the Republic of Ireland and Ukraine. Ireland has an embassy in Kyiv and Ukraine has an embassy in Dublin. Both countries are members of the Co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland–Ukraine_relations

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 28, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. vice president JD Vance held a highly contentious bilateral meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside the Oval Office at th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump–Zelenskyy_Oval_Offi…

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