In short:
A high-rise building in Kazan has been damaged in what Russian officials say is a "massive drone attack" from Ukraine.
A drone smashed into the building in the city causing damage but leaving no victims, local officials say.
What's next?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says "we will definitely continue to strike at Russian military targets with drones and missiles".
Ukraine has staged a drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000 kilometres from the frontline of the war.
A drone smashed into a high-rise apartment building in the city, damaging a skyscraper but leaving no victims, according to the Russian foreign ministry.Â
"Today Kazan suffered a massive drone attack," Rustam Minnikhanov, the head of Tatarstan, said in a post on Telegram.
"Now the enemy attacks civilians in the morning," he added.
Videos on Russian social media networks showed a drone hitting a high-rise building and setting off a fireball.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said two drones hit a 37-storey apartment block.
She said Ukraine had been targeting an unspecified industrial facility, but that it suffered no damage.
No-one was injured in the drone attack in Kazan, local officials said. (Reuters: Stringer)
Though attacks so far into Russian territory are rare, Kazan and the surrounding oil-rich region of Tatarstan have previously been targeted by Ukrainian drones.
This incident is the latest in a series of escalating aerial attacks in the nearly three-year conflict.
Strikes will 'continue'
Ukraine has escalated its attacks on targets inside Russia in recent months — particularly after the US gave Ukraine permission to use missiles to strike military targets in Russian areas close to the two countries' shared border.
While not specifically mentioning the strike on Kazan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday: "We will definitely continue to strike at Russian military targets with drones and missiles."
Videos on Russian social media networks showed a drone hitting the high-rise building and setting off a fireball. (Reuters: Stringer)
Russian civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia temporarily closed Kazan international airport, amid the threat posed by Ukrainian drones.
Some residents were evacuated, but authorities did not provide figures, and all major public events in the area were cancelled as a precaution.
Alongside the drones that hit the apartment block, three drones were shot down and three were suppressed by air defence systems, Ms Zakharova said.
Putin 'ready' for deal with Trump on Ukraine
Photo shows Vladimir Putin, at a press conference, holding his hand up to his head like a telephone.
In a post on Telegram, she said Ukraine was taking out its "anger for tangible military defeats on the peaceful population of Russia".
Russia's defence ministry said the army had captured a new village near the key city of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine where Russian forces have made major advances in recent months.
The attack on Kazan comes a day after Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killed one and wounded 13, and after five were killed by a Ukrainian attack on the Russian border region of Kursk, where its troops have been staging an offensive since August.
AFP/Reuters
