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.
“We will definitely continue to strike 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 Kyiv on Saturday.
He said cleanup operations had been completed after the ballistic missile attack on kyiv on Friday.
The president also said that a cancer clinic in southern Kherson had been hit by a strike on Saturday. “Fortunately, there were no casualties: people – patients and medical staff – had taken shelter.”
Last week, Russia used more than 550 cruise missiles, about 550 combat drones and more than 20 missiles of types opposed to 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’s leadership announced on Telegram that the attack had set fires. No initial data on victims are available.
Major events over the weekend were canceled due to safety considerations and air traffic at the airport in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan, was temporarily suspended, officials said.
The drone attacks came in three waves and from other directions, the Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram, accusing Ukraine of targeting civilian infrastructure.
Three drones were destroyed and three were repulsed, the press added.
No data on conceivable military targets was provided.
According to aviation authority Rosaviation, regional airports in Izhevsk and Saratov have also temporarily suspended takeoffs and landings for security reasons. These restrictions last 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 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 his earlier statements that six more people were killed. in the attack.
Khinshtein said 88 houses in the city were still without 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 on Russia, its own weapons systems and Western ones. The attacks were primarily aimed at military installations, supply routes, and commercial facilities.