Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened new attacks on military sites in Russia after Ukrainian attacks hit the Russian city of Kazan and a village in the border region of Kursk, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
"We will definitely continue to strike Russian military targets - with drones and missiles, increasingly Ukrainian-made ones, aimed specifically at military bases and Russian military infrastructure used in this terror against our people," he said in his evening video address from Kiev.
He added that the clean-up operations after yesterday's ballistic missile attack on Kiev had only just ended. The Ukrainian president added that a cancer clinic in the southern Kherson region was hit today.
"Fortunately, there were no casualties: people - patients and medical staff - had taken refuge," he noted.
Last week, Russia used more than 550 cruise missiles, almost 550 combat drones and over 20 missiles of various types against Ukraine, Zelensky wrote in "Ex".
Earlier today, a Ukrainian drone strike hit several residential buildings in the Russian city of Kazan, located far from the front line, according to local authorities. The city administration said on Telegram that the attack had caused fires. No injuries have been reported so far, but major weekend events have been canceled in Kazan and air traffic at the airport has been suspended.
The drone attacks were carried out in three waves and from different directions, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram, accusing Ukraine of targeting civilian infrastructure. Three drones were destroyed and three were repelled, the same source said.
A Ukrainian missile strike on the small town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region killed five people and wounded 12, the newly appointed regional governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said. He added that 88 houses in the town were still without heat.
In the summer, the Ukrainian military launched a surprise offensive across the Russian border and has since occupied parts of the Kursk region, DPA noted. Rylsk, home to nearly 15,000 people, serves as a staging area for Russian forces aimed at repelling Ukrainian incursions from the Kursk region.