Ukrainian drones damaged buildings on Saturday morning and caused evacuations in Kazan, in central Russia, about 1,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, local officials announced, stressing that no casualties had yet been reported. deplore.
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“ Today Kazan suffered a massive drone attack “, declared on Telegram the leader of the Republic of Tatarstan, where this city is located, Rustam Minnikhanov. “ If earlier industrial enterprises were attacked, now the enemy attacks civilians in the morning, directly in their homes “, he wrote.
Residents of Kazan were evacuated, according to local authorities, but their number is not known. Kazan town hall announced that these attacks had caused “fires” in several neighborhoods and that firefighters were on site.
The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, accused Ukraine of having targeted “ civil infrastructure » in Kazan. He assured that six drones had been neutralized or destroyed, but did not specify their total number or if certain devices had reached their targets.
The spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, declared that three residential buildings had been damaged, including one of around thirty floors. One of the targets of the attack was ” an industrial enterprise that was not damaged ”, according to Maria Zakharova. She denounced a “ cynical attack » aiming to avenge the “ tangible military defeats » of theUkraine.
Air traffic was interrupted on Saturday morning at Kazan airport before resuming a few hours later, according to the Russian civil aviation agency (Rosaviatsia).
Kazan, on the banks of the Volga, has repeatedly suffered drone attacks from Ukraine targeting industrial sites linked to the army. This city of around 1.3 million inhabitants is located around 700 kilometers east of the Russian capital.
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