MOSCOW:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed to deliver extra “destruction” to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone assault on the central Russian metropolis of Kazan a day earlier.
Russia accused Ukraine of a “huge” drone assault that hit a luxurious house block within the metropolis, some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the frontier.
Movies on Russian social media networks confirmed drones hitting a high-rise glass constructing and setting off fireballs, although there have been no reported casualties on account of the strike.
“Whoever, and nevertheless a lot they attempt to destroy, they may face many occasions extra destruction themselves and can remorse what they’re making an attempt to do in our nation,” Putin stated throughout a televised authorities assembly on Sunday.
Putin was addressing the native chief of Tatarstan, the area the place Kazan is positioned, in a road-opening ceremony through video hyperlink.
The strike on Kazan was the newest in a collection of escalating aerial assaults within the practically three-year battle.
Ukraine has not commented on the strike.
Putin has beforehand threatened to focus on the centre of Kyiv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in response to Ukrainian assaults on Russian territory.
And the defence ministry has referred to as Russian strikes on Ukrainian vitality services over current weeks retaliatory hits for Kyiv utilizing Western-supplied missiles to hit Russian air bases and arms factories.
The most recent menace comes as Russia claimed contemporary advances on the battlefield in east Ukraine.
The defence ministry stated on Telegram that its troops had “liberated” the villages of Lozova within the northeastern Kharkiv area and Krasnoye — referred to as Sontsivka in Ukraine.