KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy threatened additional attacks on military facilities in Russia, after Ukrainian moves hit the Russian city of Kazan and a village in the Kursk border region.
“In fact, we will continue to attack targets of the Russian army, with drones and missiles, with Ukrainian-made missiles, in particular against Russian bases and military infrastructure used in this terrorism against our people,” he said. he declared in his nightly video address from Kyiv. SATURDAY.
He said the cleanup operations after a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on Friday had only just been completed.
The president also said that a cancer clinic in southern Kherson went on strike on Saturday. “Fortunately there were no casualties: other people, patients and medical staff, had taken refuge. »
Last week, Russia used more than 550 cruise missiles, almost 550 combat drones and more than 20 missiles from other countries opposing Ukraine, Zelensky wrote in X.
Zelensky’s comments come after a Ukrainian drone strike on Saturday hit several residential buildings in the Russian city of Kazan, which is on the front line, according to local authorities.
The city management announced on Telegram that the attack had caused fires. No initial data on those affected was available.
Major events over the weekend were canceled for safety reasons and air traffic at the airport in Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, was temporarily suspended, officials said.
The drone attacks occurred in three waves and from different directions, the Defence Ministry wrote on Telegram, accusing Ukraine of attacking civilian infrastructure.
Three drones were destroyed and three were repelled, it added.
No information was provided on 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 security reasons. These restrictions usually last for a few hours.
Ukraine has been defending itself against Russia’s full-scale invasion for nearly three years with Western support and frequently targets Russian sites as part of its counteroffensive.
A Ukrainian missile strike on the small town of Rylsk in Russia’s Kursk border region killed five and injured 12, the newly appointed regional governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said on Saturday, correcting his earlier statements that six people had died in the attack.
Khinshtein said 88 houses in the city still did not have heat.
The Ukrainian army introduced a marvelous offensive across the Russian border this summer and has since occupied parts of the Kursk region.
Rylsk, home to about 15,000 residents, is about 30 kilometers from the border and serves as a deployment domain for Russian forces to repel Ukrainian incursions from the Kursk region.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has expanded its attacks against Russia, its own weapons systems and Western ones. The attacks were basically directed at military installations, routes of origin and commercial facilities.