MOSCOW:
Kyiv on Saturday staged a significant drone assault on the Russian metropolis of Kazan, 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the frontier, the most recent in a sequence of escalating aerial assaults within the almost three-year battle.
A drone smashed right into a high-rise condominium constructing within the metropolis of greater than 1.3 million, damaging a skyscraper however leaving no victims, native officers mentioned.
Although assaults up to now into Russian territory are uncommon, Kazan and the encircling oil-rich area of Tatarstan have beforehand been focused by Ukrainian drones.
Such strikes are seen as embarrassing for Russia, nearly three years into its navy offensive on Ukraine.