KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has threatened further attacks on military installations in Russia, after Ukrainian strikes 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 was hit by a strike on Saturday. “Fortunately there were no victims: other people, patients and medical staff, took refuge. “
Last week, Russia used more than 550 cruise missiles, almost 550 combat drones and more than 20 missiles of various types against Ukraine, Zelenskyy wrote on 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 administration announced on Telegram that the attack caused fires. No initial information about casualties was available.
Major weekend events were cancelled for security 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 attacks came in three waves and from other directions, the Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram, accusing Ukraine of attacking civilian infrastructure.
Three drones were destroyed and three rejected, he added.
No information was provided on possible military targets.
According to aviation authority Rosaviation, regional airports in Izhevsk and Saratov have also temporarily suspended takeoffs and landings for safety reasons. These restrictions last a few hours.
Ukraine has opposed a large-scale Western-aided invasion by Russia for about three years and is targeting Russian sites as part of its counteroffensive.
A Ukrainian missile attack on the small town of Rylsk, in the Russian border region of Kursk, killed five more people and wounded 12 others, newly appointed regional governor Alexander Khinshtein said on Saturday, correcting earlier statements that six more people They had died in the attack.
Khinshtein said 88 homes in the town still had no heating.
The Ukrainian military introduced a wonderful 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 area for Russian forces seeking 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, supply routes and commercial facilities.