Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened further attacks on military installations in Russia after Ukrainian attacks hit the Russian city of Kazan and a village in the Kursk border region.
“We will certainly continue to attack Russian military targets – with drones and missiles, increasingly with Ukrainian-made ones, specifically targeting military bases and Russian military infrastructure used in this terror against our people,” he said in his evening video address from Kiev. Saturday.
He said clean-up operations following a ballistic missile attack on Kiev had only just been completed on Friday.
The president also said a cancer clinic in southern Kherson was hit by a strike on Saturday. “Fortunately, there were no casualties: people – patients and medical staff – had sought shelter.”
Last week, Russia used more than 550 cruise missiles, almost 550 combat drones and more than 20 missiles of various types against Ukraine, Zelensky wrote on X.
Ukrainian drone strike hits residential buildings in Kazan
Zelensky’s comments came after a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday hit several residential buildings in the Russian city of Kazan, located far from the front line, local authorities said.
The city government announced via Telegram that the attack caused a fire. No initial information on casualties was available.
Major weekend events have been canceled for safety reasons and air traffic at the airport in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, has been temporarily suspended, officials said.
The drone strikes took place in three waves and from different directions, the Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram, accusing Ukraine of attacking civilian infrastructure.
Three drones were destroyed and three were repelled, it added.
No information was provided about possible military targets.
According to the aviation authority Rosaviation, the regional airports of Izhevsk and Saratov have also temporarily suspended take-offs and landings for safety reasons. These restrictions usually last a few hours.
Ukraine has been defending itself against Russia’s large-scale invasion with Western support for almost three years and regularly targets Russian locations as part of its counter-offensive.
Five dead after Ukrainian rocket attack on Rylsk
A Ukrainian missile attack on the small town of Rylsk in Russia’s Kursk border region killed five people and injured 12, the newly appointed regional governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said on Saturday, correcting his earlier statements that six people had been killed in the attack .
Khinshtein said 88 houses in the city still had no heating.
The Ukrainian army launched a surprise offensive across the Russian border this summer and has since occupied parts of the Kursk region.
Rylsk, home to nearly 15,000 people, is about 30 kilometers from the border and serves as a deployment zone for Russian forces seeking to fend off Ukrainian incursions from the Kursk region.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has increased its attacks on Russia, using its own and Western weapons systems. The attacks mainly targeted military installations, supply routes and industrial facilities.
