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KIEV.- Ukraine brought the war to the heart of Russia this Saturday with drone attacks that damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan, in the Tatarstan region, more than 1000 kilometers from the front line.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Kazan had been attacked by three waves of drones between 7:40 and 9:20 this Saturday. The press service of the Governor of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, For his part, he maintained that there were eight devices in total. Six hit residential buildings, one an industrial facility and another was knocked over into a river.
A video posted on local news channel Astra, verified by The Associated Press, shows a drone flying towards the upper floors of a skyscraper.
Local authorities stated that there were no victims. Flights were interrupted at Kazan airport for a few hours and All mass gatherings were canceled of the weekend.
The airports in Izhevsk, a smaller city northeast of Kazan, and Saratov, about 650 km south of Kazan, had also temporarily halted flights.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova condemned the attack, stating that Ukraine was “venting their impotent rage over real military defeats against the peaceful population of Russia.”
This Saturday’s attacks, which Ukraine did not recognize in accordance with its security policy, come after another Ukrainian attack on Friday against a city in the Russian border region of Kursk with missiles supplied by the United States killed six people, including a child.
The attack also occurs on the day that commemorates the birth of Joseph Stalin, the strongman of the Soviet Union who led the communist state for three decades.
Moscow, for its part, sent a barrage of 113 drones to Ukraine on Friday night. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 57 drones were shot down during the attacks. Another 56 drones were “lost,” likely due to being electronically jammed.
The governor of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Oleh Syniehubov, said that eight people were injured on Friday night in drone strikes against the regional capital, also called Kharkiv.
In the city of Zaporizhzhia, four people were injured when a nine-story residential building was damaged by falling drone debris, as reported by the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov.
Moscow’s troops also continue to advance slowly in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that its forces had taken control of the village of Kostiantynopolske in Ukraine’s Donetsk province. just ten kilometers from the besieged city of Kurakhove, that they are trying to surround.
AP and Reuters Agencies
