Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed to carry 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 kilometers (620 miles) from the frontier.
Videos 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 nonetheless a lot they attempt to destroy, they are going to face many occasions extra destruction themselves and can remorse what they’re attempting 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 situated, in a road-opening ceremony by way of video hyperlink.
The strike on Kazan was the most recent 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 middle of Kyiv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in response to Ukrainian assaults on Russian territory.
And the protection ministry has referred to as Russian strikes on Ukrainian power services over current weeks retaliatory hits for Kyiv utilizing Western-supplied missiles to hit Russian air bases and arms factories.
The newest risk comes as Russia claimed recent advances on the battlefield in east Ukraine.
Kyiv on Sunday additionally accused Russian forces of killing captured Ukrainian troopers — an alleged conflict crimes violation.
A video posted by Ukraine’s one hundred and tenth separate mechanized brigade confirmed “the capturing of troopers who surrendered,” Kyiv’s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets stated in a put up on Telegram.
He stated the video — aerial footage from a drone of an obvious confrontation between Russian and Ukrainian troopers — confirmed Russians capturing the Ukrainians at point-blank vary after that they had already surrendered.
AFP couldn’t confirm the footage.
It is the most recent in a string of comparable allegations lodged by Ukraine all through the practically three-year battle.
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