Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that drones attacked residential buildings in the capital city of the Tatarstan Region to the east of Moscow on Saturday morning.
The Kazan City mayor’s office said the drones attacked buildings in three locations in Kazan, according to Russia’s TASS News Agency.
First responders were working at the site of the attacks, TASS said.
“Today, Kazan suffered a massive drone attack,” head of the oil-rich Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, said in a Telegram post.
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, blamed Ukraine for the attack in a statement on Dec. 21.
“Kiev is taking out its impotent anger for tangible military defeats on the peaceful population of Russia,” Zakharova said in comments carried by TASS.
“The attack on the capital of Tatarstan is also a kind of revenge for the successful BRICS summit in October 2024, which demonstrated the power and influence of this association, as well as an attempt to intimidate the population of one of the dynamically developing regions of our country.”
The Epoch Times has been unable to independently verify the Ukrainian or Russian claims.
“Air defense forces on duty destroyed 19 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, including nine over the Belgorod Region, five over the Voronezh Region, three over the Black Sea, one over the Kursk Region and one over the Krasnodar Region,” the ministry said in a statement, according to TASS.