A drone smashes into a high-rise apartment building, damaging a skyscraper but leaving no victims, according to local officials.

Tatarstan is a multiethnic Russian republic which is home to a significant Muslim minority. Between October 22 and October 24, its capital, Kazan hosted the summit of BRICS countries which include Brazil, India, China and South Africa, and is considered by Russia to be the Global South's alternative to the G7.

Russia's Kazan city was targeted by a major drone attack from Ukraine on Saturday. The attack damaged a high-rise apartment building but did not cause any casualties. Tatarstan's leader Rustam Minnikhanov confirmed the attack on Telegram saying that "today Kazan suffered a massive drone attack.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian city of Kazan and the airport there was temporarily closed, Russian media and aviation authorities said on Saturday. Russian state news agencies reported the drone attack on a residential complex in Kazan,

Ukraine has struck Russian zones with drone attacks on Saturday morning that local authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan in the Tatarstan region, over 600 miles (1,000 kilometres) from the front line.

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 on Dec. 22.

Kyiv on Saturday staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the frontier, the latest in a series of escalating aerial attacks in the nearly three-year conflict.

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Our offensive is going all along the front up to Kurakhovo. At the Pokrovsky site, the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to deteriorate — the Center grouping continues a powerful offensive west of the village of Zarya and forest plantations.

Explosions have occurred at a local gunpowder plant in Kazan after a raid by Ukrainian drones, the administration of the Kirovsky and Moskovsky districts of