On Sunday, Ukrainian drones struck a major Russian fuel depot for the second time in just over a week. The strikes came days after Russia launched sweeping attacks on Ukraine’s already battered energy grid, threatening to plunge thousands of homes into darkness as winter tightens its grip over the region.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed to bring more “destruction” to Ukraine in retaliation for a drone attack on a high-rise apartment block in the central Russian city of Kazan a day earlier.
“Whoever, and however much they try to destroy, they will face many times more destruction themselves and will regret what they are trying to do in our country,” Putin said in comments on the attack on Kazan – which left no casualties – during a televised government meeting.
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The statement came a day after Ukrainian drones struck high-rise buildings in the Russian city of Kazan, evoking a chilling resemblance to the 9/11 attacks in the US when planes targeted New York’s Twin Towers in 2001.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday that its forces had intercepted 42 Ukrainian drones launched overnight at Russian territory. According to the ministry, 20 of those were over the Oryol region, where the local governor said a blaze tore through the oil terminal.
Separately, Russian forces have continued grinding forward in Ukraine’s northeast, in addition to eking out gains near the eastern town of Kurakhove. On Sunday, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that its troops had captured two northeastern settlements: Lozova in the Kharkiv region and Krasne in the Luhansk province. There was no immediate confirmation from Kyiv.
While the Ukrainian military said claimed that Ukraine’s air defences downed 52 of the 103 Russian drones launched overnight.
The military said on Telegram that it had lost track of 44 drones, and another had left the territory of Ukraine to Belarus.
The military gave no information on the fate of the remaining drones.
However, they said that in Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions, private businesses and apartment buildings have been damaged by the Russian attack.
“Tentatively, without casualties,” the military added.
Local authorities said that debris from one of the downed drones fell on the roof of a multi-story building in the Kyiv region, causing a fire.
With inputs from agencies.