Shocking footage out of Russia shows numerous drones launched by Ukraine crashing into multiple residential buildings in Kazan on Saturday.
Videos circulating on social media show a fixed-wing drone flying into a high-rise apartment building and causing an explosion in Kazan, which is 500 miles east of Moscow.
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦BREAKING: Ukraine launches mass terror attack against Russian residential buildings in multiple cities. Zelensky is desperate for Russia to declare war or launch nukes so NATO can 'save him' pic.twitter.com/QfmYzcJtQ9
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) December 21, 2024
WATCH: Drone flies into building in Kazan, Russia; no word on injuries pic.twitter.com/7AtJAo963T
— BNO News (@BNONews) December 21, 2024
Terrifying footage shows drones crashing into #Kazan residential buildings in 9/11-style attack#Russia #earthquake #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #Putin pic.twitter.com/n9VLxWcdJy
— Anil Kumar Verma (@AnilKumarVerma_) December 21, 2024
No casualties have been reported, and residents have reportedly been evacuated and rescue operations are underway.
The Russian Defense ministry said the city had been attacked by three waves of kamikaze drones between 7:40 a.m. and 9:20 a.m. and that three drones were destroyed by air defense systems and three others by electronic warfare systems.
Ukrainian drones strike Kazan: Questions arise over timing and intent pic.twitter.com/M8aRXhiXId
— RT (@RT_com) December 21, 2024
⚡️Another high-rise building in Kazan hit by UAV pic.twitter.com/1tJrdwplm1
— RT (@RT_com) December 21, 2024
Moment Ukrainian drone hits residential area in Kazan
— RT (@RT_com) December 21, 2024
The blast reportedly broke the windows of nearby buildings and damaged several cars pic.twitter.com/Q8f8gAnYza
The nearby airport had temporarily closed following the attack, but has since reopened.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the attack, saying Ukraine was “taking out its impotent anger for real military defeats on the peaceful population of Russia”.
This comes weeks after Ukraine launched multiple strikes into Russia with US and UK-backed long-range ATACM and Storm Shadow missiles, a move Russia warned marks a major red line that could provoke a nuclear response.
It also comes days after Ukraine assassinated Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit.
Ukraine has launched similar drone attacks on residential buildings in recent months.
A Ukrainian drone hit a 38-storey residential building in Saratov, Russia. 4 people injured in the 9/11 style terrorist attack by Ukraine.
— BALA (@erbmjha) August 26, 2024
Hope the retaliation is powerful! pic.twitter.com/f2BYj60LCy
🚨Update: NATO attacks!! NATO suicide attack drones strike residential buildings in Moscow! How much longer before Russia destroys Ukraine and attacks Western Europe? pic.twitter.com/1Ll2lyUBTZ
— US Civil Defense News (@CaptCoronado) September 10, 2024
Ukraine appears to be increasingly desperate to goad Russia into launching World War III before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president on January 20.